Geology 326 Modeling of Earth Systems

SP 2012 syllabus

announcements

lecture midterm: 1 May
lab midterm: 8 May
projects due: 7 June by 7:30 pm
final: 14 June 2011, 8 to 9:50 am
review outline

term project ideas

office hours: M 11:00 to 13:00 and Tu: 13:00 to 14:00 (or by appointment)

computer lab excercises

• lab 1: DUE: 10 April
  • REWRITE DUE: 24 April
  • lab chapter 1: introduction/Matlab review
  • script: exponential decay
  • function: polynomial of any order

  • What is science? Some quotes.
  
  
• lab 2: DUE: 17 April
  • REWRITE DUE: 1 May
  • lab chapter 2: building a model
  • interesting reading
    • Ejection of rock fragments from planetary bodies, Melosh, 1985 (available online via Millar Library)
    • Oblique Impact: A Process for Obtaining Meteorite Samples from Other Planets, O'Keefe and Ahrens, 1986 (available online via Millar Library)
    • Launch of martian meteorites in oblique impacts, Artemieva and Ivanov, 2004 (available online via Millar Library)
  
  
• lab 3: DUE: 26 April
  • REWRITE DUE: 8 May
  • lab chapter 3:initial value problems

  • script: euler single-step for dydx=x+y
  • script: Euler single-step. range of step sizes for dydx=x+y
  • function: dydx=x+y

  • script: decay series
  • function: pairs with decay series script

  • script: decay using Matlab's Runge-Kutta solver
  • function: pairs with decay using R-K solver

  • function: two reservoir ocean
  • interesting reading: Biogeochemical Controls and Feedbacks on Ocean Primary Production, Falkowski et al, 1998, Science.
  
  
• lab 3 extra DUE: 3 May
  • REWRITE DUE:
  • extra IVP practice problem

• lab 4: We will have an alternative assignment Tuesday (see above). Nevertheless, you may find the text of this lab to have some value.
  • lab chapter 4: iteration

  • script: zero-dimensional blackbody ebm
  • script: zero-dimensional ebm with linearized radiative transfer and temperature-dependent albedo
  • interesting reading: history of climate modeling (hosted by the American Institute of Physics)
  
  
• lab 5: DUE: 10 May
  • REWRITE DUE: 22 May
  • lab chapter 5: simultaneous equations

  • script fragment from section 5.3.2
  
  
• lab 6: DUE: 17 May
  • REWRITE DUE:
  • lab chapter 6: finite difference model in 1 dimension

  • matlab file: testdat.mat
  • matlab file: testdat2.mat

  • script: 1D finite difference model
  
  
• lab 7: DUE: 24 May
  • REWRITE DUE:
  • lab chapter 7: diffusion model in one dimension

  • script: 1D thermal diffusion, explicit
  
  extras
  • conservation of some stuff an appendix to the lab material