Climate science fundamentals
The Centre of Excellence regularly runs lectures, seminar and tutorials. You can find some below.
Public Lecture
- Public lecture: Kevin Trenberth of extreme weather and climate change
- Public lecture: David Karoly: Statistical aspects in the estimation of the anthropogenic contribution to observed climate change. Statistical Society of Australia – Victorian Branch Meeting
Seminars/Lectures
- Dietmar Dommenget’s EOF lectures
- Christian Jakob – If only I had more time – improving your productivity in the world of science
- Nathan Bindoff – The IPCC Story: What happens at the final plenary?
- Scott Wales & Paola Petrelli – Working with NCI and Raijin
- Holger Wolff – Fortran Introduction
- Holger Wolff – Advanced Fortran
- Sophie Lewis – Know your place: who, what, where?
Winter School 2017: The Science of Climate Change
- Radiative forcing (Steve Sherwood) (unavailable)
- Feedbacks and feedback analyses: climate sensitivty (Steve Sherwood) (unavailable)
- Anthropogenic perturbed carbon cycle (Pete Strutton)
- Palaeoclimate (Laurie Menviel)
- Land surface processes: background and role in climate (Andy Pitman)
- Land surface processes: role in future climate (Andy Pitman)
- Atmospheric mechanisms: large scale (Dietmar Dommenget)
- Atmospheric mechanisms: small scale (Claire Vincent)
- Ocean heat uptake: sea level rise (John Church)
- Ocean mechanisms: thermohaline, Southern Ocean (Leela Frankcombe)
- Ocean mechanisms: modes of variability (Leela Frankcombe)
- Transient v. equilibrium responses; rapid adjustments; scenarios; geoengineering; climate commitment; carbon budget (Julie Arblaster)
- Detection and attribution (Nathan Bindoff)
- The IPCC process (Nathan Bindoff)
- Communicating climate change (Matthew England) (unavailable)
Winter School 2016: Tropical Meteorology
- Introduction to the tropics (Ailie Gallant)
- Equations and scaling at low latitudes (Michael Reeder)
- Zonal-mean circulation: the ITCZ and Hadley circulation (Chris Lucas)
- Wave motion in the tropics (Shayne McGregor)
- Monsoons (Josephine Brown)
- Tropical Cyclones (Elizabeth Ritchie)
- El Nino Southern Oscillation (Dietmar Dommenget)
- MJO (Andrew Marshall)
- Introduction to convection (Steve Sherwood)
- Organized convection (Todd Lane)
- Climate change (Andrea Taschetto)
Winter School 2015: Biogeochemistry of the Earth System
- Overview of the global carbon cycle, including anthropogenic perturbation (Pete Strutton)
- Oceanic Primary Production (Pete Strutton)
- Role of the ocean in glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2 (Zanna Chase)
- Inorganic carbon chemistry in the ocean (Zanna Chase)
- Organic matter export and remineralization (Pete Strutton)
- Riverine input and the chemical composition of the ocean (Zanna Chase)
- Biogeochemistry in ocean General Circulation Models (Mathieu Mongin)
- Introduction to the atmospheric radiation, energy balance and GHGs (Robyn Schofield)
- Terrestrial Intro +N/P cycle (Alex Johnson)
- Environmental policy—the Montreal protocol, climate and air quality policy (Robyn Schofield)
- Terrestrial CO2 cycles (Peter Rayner)
- Modelling terrestrial biosphere (Peter Rayner)
- The atmospheric sulfur cycle, water, clouds and aerosols (Robyn Schofield)
- Climate change, crops and food security (Alex Johnson)
- CO2 cycle —climate feedbacks (Peter Rayner) [unavailable]
Winter School 2014: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Geophysical fluid dynamics primer lectures
- Shear instability (Andy Hogg)
- Baroclinic instability (Shane Keating)
- Convection (Bishakhdatta Gayen)
- Gravity currents (Graham Hughes)
- A brief introduction to 3D turbulence (Todd Lane)
- Western Boundary Currents (Andrew Kiss)
- Eddy mean-flow interactions (Erik van Sebille)
- Atmospheric Moist Convection (Steven Sherwood)
- Internal wave dynamics (Yvan Dossmann)
- Equatorially trapped waves (Shayne McGregor)
- Physical oceanography and climate dynamics/physics (Matthew England)
- Vorticity and Quasi-Geostrophy (Paul Spence)
- A Python Tutorial for Climate Scientists (Marshall Ward)
Winter School 2013: Climate Modelling
General
- The Peer Review Process (Matthew England)
- Detecting and attributing observed changes to anthropogenic forcing (Nathan Bindoff)
Atmosphere
- Fundamentals of modelling the atmosphere (Steven Sherwood)
- Boundary Layer, Gravity Waves & Shallow Convection (Daniel Hernández)
- (Moist) Convection & Precipitation: Reality vs. Modelled (Muhammad Hassim)
- Aerosols, Clouds and Radiative Forcing of the Earth System (Karsten Peters)
Variability
Extemes
Land
- Introduction to land surface modeling (Jatin Kala)
- Terrestrial biochemistry in climate models (Jeff Exbrayat)
Oceans
- Fundamentals of Physical Oceanography (Paul Spence)
- Ocean Modelling: an Introduction for Everybody (Stephanie Waterman)
- Representation of mode of variability in climate models: a focus on ENSO (Agus Santoso)
Climate models