Theme: Weather and Climate Interactions
The ARC Centres of Excellence for Climate Extremes & 21st Century Weather will co-host a graduate level winter school June 17-21 2024, at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University.
The ARC Centres of Excellence for Climate Extremes & 21st Century Weather will co-host a graduate level winter school June 17-21 2024, at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University.
The climate is the aggregate of individual weather systems. From this perspective, weather systems are the building blocks of the climate. Of course, the connection is not one way since the frequency and amplitude of various weather systems are themselves modulated by climate. This winter school will focus on the how extreme weather relates to weather systems, the physical mechanisms involved and the potential effects of climate change on these mechanisms.
Our Winter Schools are the cornerstone of our Graduate Program. We want to have graduate students who not only have highly specialised knowledge in their own area of research, but also a broad understanding of the discipline as a whole. The winter school provides this opportunity. The theme of the winter school changes each year, and shifts from broader, relevant to everyone, topics to more focused topics requiring prerequisite knowledge.
Winter School 2024 schedule
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REQUIRED READINGS
- Isaac Held, 57. Teleconnections and stationary Rossby waves
- Michael J. Reeder, Chapter 1. Instabilities and Moist Convection
Winter School LECTURE AND Materials
- Spectral filtering Lab
- Chart discussions
- From climate to weather change by Christian Jakob
- Fronts and frontogenesis by Michael Barnes
- Potential vorticity and PV thinking by Michael Barnes
- Waves and teleconnections by Steve Sherwoood
- Weather resources by Doug Richardson
LECTURE RECORDINGS
- Modes of variability and climate interactions by Dr Claire Vincent
- Weather and drought in Australia by Dr Ailie Gallant
- Fronts and frontogenesis by Dr Michael Barnes
- High-resolution atmospheric modelling by Dr Yi Huang
- Monsoons by Dr Josephine Brown
- The omega equation by Professor Michael Reeder
- Potential vorticity by Dr Michael Barnes
- Weather resources by Dr Doug Richardson
- Weather in the 21st Century by Professor Christian Jakob
- Waves and teleconnections (part 1) by Professor Steve Sherwood
- General Circulation (part 2) by Professor Steve Sherwood
- Ocean dynamics and their role in climate by Dr Navid Constantinou