SP 2008 syllabus

announcements

lecture midterm: 1 May review sheet
lab midterm: 8 May
term projects due: 3 June by 6 pm project ideas
final: 5 June during lab section review sheet

office hours: Tu & Th: 13:00 to 14:00 (or by appointment)

computer lab excercises

• lab 1: DUE: 10 April
  • REWRITE DUE: 22 April
  • lab chapter 1: Matlab introduction/review
  • script: exponential decay
  • function: polynomial of any order
  • interesting reading: Tritium as an ocean circulation tracer
  
  
• lab 2: DUE: 17 April
  • REWRITE DUE: 29 April
  • lab chapter 2: building a model
  • f_buoyantsto.m function: buoyant motion of a sphere at low Re
  • f_buoyantmo.m function: buoyant motion of a sphere with drag coefficient
  • interesting reading: Mantle viscosity, King, 1995
  
  
• lab 3: DUE: 29 April
  • REWRITE DUE: 6 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 4: DUE: 1 May
  • REWRITE DUE: 13 May
  • 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: 8 May
  • REWRITE DUE: 20 May
  • lab chapter 5: simultaneous equations

  • script: exercise6_incomplete.m
  
  
• lab 6: DUE: 20 May
  • REWRITE DUE: 29 May
  • 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: 27 May
  • REWRITE DUE: 3 June
  • lab chapter 7: diffusion model in one dimension

  • script: 1D thermal diffusion, explicit
  • script: 1D thermal diffusion, implicit
  • script: 1D thermal diffusion, gradient BC, implicit
  
  
• extras
  • conservation of everything an appendix to the lab material