Wednesdays, 11:00 until 12:45, in lecture room MIN 207 of the Minnaert Building at the Uithof of Utrecht University.

Prof. Bart van den Hurk (lecturer)

Laura Batlle-Bayer (student assistent)

Bold-faced presentations are updated recently (2011/2012).

00 Setup

01 Land in climate models

02 Land surface parameterization, soil moisture spreadsheet and soil hydraulics spreadsheet

03 Global distribution of water and carbon

04 Exercise 1

05 Land-atmosphere interaction and the conceptual model and thermal coupling spreadsheet

06 Exercise with conceptual model including the Windows executable and (example) namelist and source code of model and source code of random routine

07 Land use change effects and land-use feedback analysis

08 Group presentations

09 Examples and diagnosing land-atmosphere interaction

10 Modelling European Regional climate

11 Climate Scenarios and applications over land area

12 Group presentations

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Land surface schemes in climate models (doc)

Balsamo et al (2009) paper on HTESSEL

Trenberth et al (2009) paper on global energy cycle

Documentation Physical parameterization ECMWF IFS model

Van den Hurk et al (2000) describing TESSEL

Link to Ferret documentation (Ferret = graphical Linux package for easy viewing/processing geophysical fields)

Fluxnet analysis of Teuling et al (2010)

Davin et al (2010) about deforestation effects in a GCM

Global recycling analysis by Van der Ent et al (submitted)

Description of routing scheme TRIP and the paper

v Heerwaarden et al (2010) about the LE tendency equation

Lucas-Picher et al (2003) describing another routing scheme

Manual of GMT (graphics package)

Schimel et al (2001) about global terrestrian carbon pools

Sellers et al (1996) about modelling canopy albedo

Trenberth (1999) about global distribution of recycling rates

Betts et al (2006) about measuring/diagnosing land-atmosphere coupling

Friedlingstein et al (2003) about modelling carbon cycle feedback in the climate system

Kanamitsu et al (2003) about assessing mechanisms of regional scale land-atmosphere coupling

Seneviratne et al (2006) about European land-atmosphere coupling in a future climate

Bierkens and Van den Hurk (2006) about groundwater in a conceptual land-atmosphere coupling model

Entekhabi et al (1992) describing the conceptual land-atmosphere coupling model

Seneviratne et al (2006) about soil moisture memory in GLACE models

IPCC WG-I reports

Koster et al (2004) famous Science paper on global regions with strong land-atmosphere coupling

Henk Dijkstra lecture notes on Stochastic Differental Calculus

Cook et al (2006) about land-atmosphere feedback assessed using regional climate simulations in South-Africa

script with a couple of simple plotting tasks

A new file opdracht.tar is put on /home/mfo/hurk on 13 march 2007, containing some updates and corrections. Time series plotting requires installation of a file .gnuplot on your home directory.