PHY198S

Physics at the Cutting Edge (2020-21) -- PHY198S

Week 3 readings

Our upcoming Week 3 colloquium by Dr. Mark Zelinka (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) is entitled Global warming is larger in the latest climate models than in their predecessors. Do we trust them?. Dr. Zelinka will be centring his talk around the role of clouds in modelling global warming accurately.

(Note: it is an accident of timing that two broadly similar colloquia are happening back-to-back -- we typically have to book colloquium speakers several months to two years in advance, and it just so happened that these two ended up next to each other in the schedule.)

1. Week 2 catchup

Please start your preparation for next week's class and colloquium by reading the parts of the Week 2 readings that you didn't get to last week.

2. NWS JetStream

A pretty great, accessible resource about everything weather-related can be found on the US National Weather Service's JetStream website. Focus your attention first on the Topic Matrix. From there, I suggest reading about the first four topics:

The Atmosphere
The Ocean
Global Weather (note: the 5th item in the list is missing; after the 4th, skip over to the 6th.)
Clouds