Land-Climate Interactions

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Prof. Paul Dirmeyer
Building: Research Hall
Office: Room 266
Mail stop: 6C5
Phone: +1-703-993-5363
E-mail: pdirmeye~gmu.edu

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CLIM714 - Land-Climate Interactions

Description

Interdisciplinary course providing detailed description of surface energy and water balance over land and radiative and turbulent transfer. Introduces numerical techniques for modeling land surface and applications in weather, climate, and hydrologic forecasting and simulation. Includes hands-on experience with analysis of model and observed data to reinforce theoretical concepts. Exposure to contemporary research through reading and reviewing seminal journal papers.

Learning Objectives

  • Understanding of surface water and energy balances between land and atmosphere.
  • Understanding of the hydrologic, thermal, radiative and dynamical interactions between land and atmosphere.
  • Ability to perform rigorous calculations and analysis of data.
  • Familiarity with the evolution of the field of research and its current state of the art.

Materials

No required textbook - lecture notes only

Terrestrial Hydrometeorology by Jim Shuttleworth and Ecological Climatology by Gordon Bonan are supplemental textbooks that may be useful.

Eleanor Blyth and I are beginning to write a textbook for the subject - stay tuned!

Syllabus

Spring 2016