The Mathematics of Climate
Milo Viviani
Chalmers University of Technology
04th-06th-07th February 2020
The fall trimester in Paris (IHP)
Plan of the seminars
- 04th February: introductory meeting
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06th February:
- morning - Atmospheric CO2, climate change and the global carbon cycle
- afernoon - An Introduction to Random Dynamical Systems for Climate
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07th February:
- morning - Variational principles for Deterministic Fluid Dynamics and SALT equation
- afernoon - Numerically Modelling Stochastic Lie Transport in Fluid Dynamics, e.g. damped and forced incompressible 2D Euler model and 2-layer quasigeostrophic model
What the seminars will be about...
- General overview of the climate system and its interaction with human activities
- Random dynamical systems approach to climate science
- Combined geometric mechanics and stochastic modeling for climate
- Numerical modeling, uncertainty quantification and data assimilation of geophysical fluid dynamics
What the seminars will not be about...
- An advanced course in climate science
- A debate on climate change
- A mathematical study of the economical effects of climate change
- A panoramic view on the current research of climate science
Access to the material
Text me at:
viviani@chalmers.se
A definition of Climate
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Horizontal zone of the Earth's surface measured by lines parallel to the equator, from Greek klima "region, zone," literally "an inclination, slope," thus "slope of the earth from equator to pole".
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The regular pattern of weather conditions of a particular place (Oxford dictionary)
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The long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years (Wikipedia)
- The climate is what you expect; the weather is what you get! (Robert Heinlein, “Time Enough for Love” 1973)