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Conservation laws in geophysical fluid dynamics: deriving the equations of motionThu Apr 30, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture notes on conservation laws

Meeting recording (vBrick): password: MathClimate

Lecture notes from Rupert Klein (Page 1-15) on conservation laws (please let me know if you need additional references)

Mathematics and Climate (book chapter 14)

Homework (please hand in via "assignments")

Reduced dynamical system models: example of the Lorenz 1963 systemThu May 07, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture notes on model reduction

Mathematics and Climate (book chapter 15)

Meeting recording (Vbrick). Box link (no zedat account required): https://box.fu-berlin.de/s/48zNCTKcobFtwAR

Homework (please hand in via "assignments")

Sample solutions (thanks to Heiss, Schütte, Tasan)

Notes on the model derivation (anonymous)

Introduction to dynamical systemsThu May 14, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture notes on dynamical systems

Mathematics and Climate (book chapter 4)

Meeting recording (Box link)

Homework (please hand in via "assignments")

Planar dynamical systems case. Analysing nonlinear dynamicsThu May 28, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture notes (as a continuation of the previous lecture notes on dynamical system)

Mathematics and Climate (book chapter 4)

Meeting recording (Box link)

Video: Laboratory demonstrations of planetary style fluid dynamics

Homework:
Please prepare for yourself, but do not hand in. We will work on it together.

BifurcationsThu Jun 04, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture notes on bifurcations

Mathematics and Climate (book chapter 5)

Meeting recording (box link)

Homework:
Please prepare for yourself, but do not hand in. We will work on it together.

Analysing a reduced model for the thermohaline circulationThu Jun 11, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture by Abhishek PH

Lecture notes on Thermohaline Circulation

Meeting recording

Link for the visualization of THC.

Mathematics and Climate (book chapter 3 and chapter 6)

Homework (Jupyter notebook) or Homework (pdf)

Link for the paper by Stommel

Lorenz 1963 systemThu Jun 18, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture notes on the Lorenz equations.

Meeting recording

Mathematics and Climate (book chapter 7)

Lecture notes by Jeroen Wouters

Lorenz 1963 article

Homework (Jupyter notebook) or Homework (pdf)
Please prepare for yourself, but do not hand in. We will work on it together.

Characterizing an attractor from dataThu Jul 02, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Lecture notes : characterising an attractor from data

Meeting recording

Further reading: chaos and weather prediction, ECMWF lecture notes, Buizza, 2000

Homework please prepare (but do not hand in)

Reference for homework: Palmer 1999

Persistent dynamics - data-driven identification of metastable states in climateThu Jul 09, 2020 10:00 AM -  | 12:00 PM

Slides from the lecture: data-driven analysis of persistent weather regimes

Meeting recording

Jupyter notebook of tutorial is available here

You can find some theoretical background on hidden Markov models in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.3220.pdf.