GEOL 410/510 The Cryospehre

syllabus (pdf)

midterm outline (pdf)

laboratory exercises

climatology lab handout
- correction: Question 10 should reference the 10 C summer (July) isotherm
- Hulbe's (short) answers (new 2 February 2008)
  - Murmansk winter temperature and AO index figure
- data files
- Matlab scripts
  - f_map.m mapping function
  - f_Ttrends.m temperature record function
  - f_Tanom.m function called by f_Ttrends (you need this for f_Ttrends)
  - map_earthsurf.m (not required)
  - map_surfacetemp.m (not required)
GCM lab handout NEW as of 1/23/08
- Hulbe's (short) answers
an ice sheet model
- Matlab scripts
  - netcdf.m script to read netCDF files
  - prepare_output.m script to prepare model output
  - plot_slices.m data visualization
  - plot_vertprof.m data visualization
  - plot_change.m data visualization
- Matlab data file
  - gland-500-100.mat GW run, no sliding, data file
- GLIMMER ice sheet model documentation
the lost labs: permafrost temperature and biogeochemistry
- PTrecords.mat Alaska soil temperature records
- f_PTplot.m function to plot soil temperature records