Inter-annual phenomena and their prediction

Please follow this link for the course information retrieved from the ETH semester programme.

Number: 701-1226-00

Where: CHN E42

When: Thursday 08.15 - 10.00

Lecturer

• Christof Appenzeller (apc) - Personal Website - Email
• Annette Miltenberger (mia) - Personal Website - Email

Course outline

Program

Slides

The sildes are protected with a password.

• Chapter 1: Introduction pdf
• Chapter 2: The climate system pdf_part1 pdf_part2
• Chapter 3: Climate data and analysis methods pdf EOF-script
• Chapter 4: IAV tropical region pdf_part1 pdf_part2 pdf_part3
• Chapter 5: IAV extra-tropical region pdf_part1 pdf_part2 pdf_part3 pdf_part4
• Chapter 6: Prediction of IAV pdf_part1 pdf_part2
• Chapter 7: IAV and climate change
• Chapter 8: Summary

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Ekman transport exercise solution
• Exercise 2: Global mean land temperature exercise solution
• Exercise 3: ENSO and global temperature exercise solution
• Exercise 4: Tropical region ENSO exercise indices introduction Climate Explorer solution
• Exercise 4b: ENSO - damped oscillator exercise solution
• Exercise 5: IAV in the extra-tropical region exercise solution
• Exercise 5a: IAV and climate change paper1 paper2
• Exercise 5b: Timescales of Variability in the North Atlantic exercise solution_part1 solution_part2
• Exercise 6: Climate Outlook exercise
• Exercise 7: Verification

Links and additional information

• KNMI Climate Explorer

• NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

• Arlene Laing and Jenni-Louise Evans, 2009: TROPICAL VARIABILITY
  Chapter 5 in “Introduction to tropical meteorology” available from
  COMET see link