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Thermodynamics and Thermodynamics and Physics of the atmosphere (TPA) (Term 1, 30 hours, 6 ECTS)


JUPYTER BOOK UPDATES SOON
PYTHON code for explictly modelling cloud accretion process CLICK HERE FOR LARGER VERSION OF ANIMATION (NOTEBOOK HAS ISSUES WITH ANIMATION)

PYTHON code for interactive plotting of T,q profiles on skew-T gram (with moist adiabat overlays optional).

Other Class Material
PLEASE CHECK HERE FOR THE UP TO DATE SCHEDULE

Past Exam papers (slowly being incorporated into exercises)
Examination is by a 3 hour written exam, usually at the start of January.

Thermodynamics past exam papers:
  • 2011 thermodynamics exam paper

  • 2012 thermodynamics exam paper

  • 2013 thermodynamics exam paper


    • Atmospheric Physics past exam papers:
  • 2009 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2010 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2011 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2012 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2013 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2014 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2015 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2016 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2017 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2018 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2019 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2020 atmospheric physics exam paper

  • 2021 atmospheric physics exam paper


    • Earth System Modelling (Term 2, 15 lectures = 30 hours [15 labs], [=6 ECTS for univsersity students ] )

    first attempt at notebooks: The forward in time, centred in space advection scheme

    EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING JUPYTER BOOK (borrows chapters from Brian Rose's excellent online course)

    DATA LINKS

    ECMWF dataserver (Tigge, ERA Interim, MACC)
    Copernicus dataserver (ERA5, Eurosip, CMIP)
    IRI Data Library
    CDO
    KNMI Climate Explorer
    NCEP reanalysis

    Diploma Research Thesis

    I will consider requests to supervise a maximum of one or two students for Diploma thesis research. Subjects can include climate variability, climate physics (convection and clouds in particular), short-range to seasonal forecast evaluation and climate applications in health. Please see me if you wish to discuss one of the suggested project or other opportunities further.

    Please note that from 2019 I will be setting a GPA minimum threshold to take up one of my research projects, and the selection process is competitive, below this GPA threshold I will only accept students for literature review assignments. project 1 : cold pools in nextgems project 2: understanding recent temperature trends project 3 :

    Access Times

    Office access times for help and advice are Tuesday and Thursday from 2.30pm to 3.30pm



    Google Scholar is an excellent resource to find further articles. All AMS articles older than 5 years are free-to-view, and ICTP has access to many journals online. Web of Science is an alternative and "official" tool but is not uniformly available due to the cost

    I strongly encourage all diploma students to adopt LATEX for thesis write-up (in the long run you will thank me for it!). Here are some useful resources:

    All my style files (contains REFERENCES.bib)

    Not so short (but very excellent) latex guide And remember... ALWAYS compile your LATEX document twice if you change any cross-references or figures etc.
    Thunderstorm over Venice

    ACCLIMATISE PROJECT

    I'm currently leading the new ACCLIMATISE project, a 3 year 3.5 million euro project supported by the Wellcome Trust to look at climate attribution in the assessment of malaria interventions in Senegal, Ethiopia and Kenya, with partners in all three countries as well as Italy, Switzerland the the USA..

    Climate Unboxed


    My new hobby in my free time is to upload videos on various topics related to weather and climate on my new YouTube channel climate unboxed. At the moment there are only my initial videos on climate data processing that I am developing for a new joint EDX course with the UNESCO regional office in Zimbabwe, but I hope to supplement these with more general interest material over the coming year. Don't forget to subscribe for news on new uploads.
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    Google Scholar Page

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