Conceptual Models of the Climate
Neil J. Balmforth, Director
Paola Cessi, Ray Pierrehumbert, Eli Tziperman, Principal Lecturers
Janet Fields, Administrator
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Editor
Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
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Preface by Neil J. Balmforth
Lectures by Eli Tziperman
Lecture
0: A
very brief introduction
Lecture 1: El Nino - Southern
Oscillations: phenomenology and dynamical background
Lecture 2: ENSO toy models
Lecture 3: ENSOs irregularity
and phase locking
Lectures by Paola Cessi
Lecture
4: Thermohaline
Circulation Variability
Lecture
5: Thermohaline
Variabilityaa
Lectures by Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Lecture
6: Energy
Balance Models
Lecture 7: Basic Principles
of Climate
Lectures by Eli Tziperman
Lecture
8: Glacial-interglacial
variability: phenomenology and dynamical background
Lecture 9: Mechanisms and toy
models of the glacial cycles
Lectures by Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Lecture 10: Paleoclimates and Mars
Fellows' Reports
Slipping
instability in a system of two superposed fluid layers
Chiara Toniolo, Istituto di Cosmogeofisica/CNR, Italy
The
Time Evolution of Water Vapor \Black Holes" in the Upper Troposphere
Edwin P. Gerber, Princeton University
Nonlinear
effects on ENSO's period
Fiona Eccles, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Abyssal
flow in a two-layer model with sloping boundaries and a mid-ocean ridge
Helen C. Andersson, Goteborg University, Sweden
Convective
oscillations in a laboratory model
Lianke te Raa, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Diagnosing
El Nino - La Nina Transitions
Matthew S. Spydell, University of California, San Diego
Effect
of bottom topography on roll wave instabilities
Shreyas Mandre, Northwestern University
The
Black Hole of Water Vapor and the Asymmetries in the Tropical Circulation
Takamitsu Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Last
update: May 28, 2002.
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