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A place to publicise your and others' use of the 'Climate Modelling Primer' and related materials. You need to be a group member to post here. These sites are developed and maintained by others. Contact them directly if you have questions about using their models.
Complex Ecological Models
Complex Ecologic-Economic Dynamics and Environmental Policy
University of Wales
Introduction to Environmental Modelling, University of Wales, Swansea
Iowa State University
Iowa State University, Course on climate models
http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/gccourse/model/direct/direct.html
University of Colorado
University of Colorado The Art of Climate and Environmental Modeling:
University of Alaska
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Atmospheric sciences course
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~bhatt/Teaching/ATM656.fall2007/atm656.fall07.h...
Climate Change Course: University of Arizona
University of Arizona, Climate change course: Not surprisingly, “real” climate models – the ones used to forecast global warming – are far more complicated.
http://bill.srnr.arizona.edu/classes/182/Climate%20Change%20-%20II.pdf
Primer in Persian
A Climate Modelling Primer has also appeared in other languages. The first edition can be found in Persian and in Spanish.
ZeroD EBM and EBM
ZeroD EBM and EBM: The goal of this model is to make some predictions about the global temperature of the earth and to see how this depends on a range of parameters. In particular, we will see how the "greenhouse effect" works and the impact this has on the global temperature.
(Gustavus Adolphus College, Thomas Huber)
Zero-D EBM
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ZeroD EBM: One method of investigating the effects of changing solar output on the Earth's climate system is to use a globally averaged (zero dimensional) Energy Balance Model (EBM- extends Primer models). (University of Southampton, Jochem Marotzke)
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/research/groups/ocean_climate/demos/ebm/
Daisyworld
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Daisyworld: a tutorial approach to geophysiological modeling
(Potsdam Institute, Werner von Bloh)
Java climate models
Four Java models: Daisyworld, EBM, land-surface, and ocean box model. This site is developed for use by educators and the general public. The programs are written in Java based on the BASIC programs in McGuffie and Henderson-Sellers (1997).
(University of Texas at Austin, Liang Yang)
Daisyworld
Daisyworld: The key aspect of Daisyworld is that the two types of daisies have different colors and thus different albedos. In this way, the daisies can alter the temperature of the surface where they are growing. (PennState University, Dave Bice)
http://www.geosc.psu.edu/~dbice/DaveSTELLA/Daisyworld/daisyworld_model.h...
Zero-D EBM
ZeroD EBM: The overall goal of this exercise is to make predictions about the global temperature of the Earth.
(New York University, Maths Dept.)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/physical_oceanography/numerical_ex...
The spreadsheet EBM
EBM: build an EBM using a common spreadsheet. The example uses Excel 5.0, but ought to be readily adaptable to most commonly available programs. (University of Colorado, Koni Steffen).
http://cires.colorado.edu/steffen/classes/geog5211/ebm.pdf