Lecture/Reading: Thursday, 14-16

Room: UNICOM 2.2090

01-01-03-MES-V

https://elearning.uni-bremen.de/dispatch.php/course/overview?cid=afa7e57aeced44dd887fbc980188c947

Prof. Dr. Gerrit Lohmann / Dr. Silke Thoms / Prof. Dr. Thomas Jung / Prof. Dr. Mihalis Vrekoussis

Module section 2 / Theoretical Basics

Compulsory for MSc Environmental Physics (3 CP, 90 h)

• presence (lecture & example classes): 28 h (2 SWH x 14 weeks)
• preparation, learning + examples: 28h
• preparation for exam: 10h

Content:

1) 13.4. INTRODUCTION:

Earth system model components, definitions, processes. (MV)



2) 27.4. NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS I:

Finite differences: Ordinary differential equations (Runge-Kutta etc) (ST)

https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/64684483652?pwd=ZjAreVRYeVJQU0VBVWZsOFBVNEhSQT09



3) 4.5. NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS II:

Finite differences: Partial differential equations (Arakawa Grids etc) (ST)

https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/64684483652?pwd=ZjAreVRYeVJQU0VBVWZsOFBVNEhSQT09



4) 11.5. EXAMPLES: waves, diffusion, boundaries (ST)

https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/64684483652?pwd=ZjAreVRYeVJQU0VBVWZsOFBVNEhSQT09



5) 25.5. NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS III:

Finite Volume and Finite Elements and spectral methods (atmosphere and ocean) (TJ)



6) 14.7. HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (scalability, Moore’s law) (TJ)



7) 8.6. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY I:

Chemistry Transport Models (chemical processes including types of models, box models, grids, coordinates) (MV)

8) 15.6. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY II:

Inverse methods (MV)

9) 22.6. Earth system models including TRACERS and DYNAMICAL VEGETATION (GL)

10) 29.6. DATA ASSIMILATION (Kalman filters etc) (TJ)



11) 6.7. CRYOSPHERE (Sea ice, ice sheets, and permafrost) (GL)

12) 13.7. RANDOM SYSTEMS (Stochastic differential equations, Lattice Gases) (GL)

Formalities

Code no. 01-01-03-MES-V

Assignment to study programmes: Compulsory for MSc Environmental Physics, Optional compulsory for MSc Physik

 

 

13) Exam written on xxx

 

Literature:

  • Gershenfeld, N., The nature of mathematical modeling, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, 344 pp. link

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