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Introduction to cloud modeling

Academic year: 2020/2021
Semester: summer

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

This lecture series will review basic techniques to simulate cloud processes, such as formation and growth of cloud droplets, formation of rain through collision/coalescence. Lectures will start with simple approaches such a bulk condensation model, and will gradually introduce more comprehensive methodology, such as the super-droplet method. Lectures will also involve demonstration and practical exercises with a simple cloud-scale model based on nonoscillatory-forward-in-time differencing for fluid flows. As the main cloud modeling project, the students will simulate a (non-precipitating) moist thermal rising in a neutrally stratified environment.

Schedule

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both lectures and tutorials will be online. We will meet weekly via Google Meet according to the schedule below:

  • Lecture:   Tuesdays, 12:15 - 14:00 (Gustavo Abade)
  • Tutorials: Tuesdays, 14:15 - 16:00 (Daniel Albuquerque)

Bibliography

  • Rogers and Yau, A Short Course in Cloud Physics.
  • Pruppacher and Klett, Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation.
  • Manton, M. J. , The physics of clouds in the atmosphere, Rep. Prog. Phys. 46: 1393 (1983).
  • Grabowski, W. W. and Smolarkiewicz, P. K., Monotone finite-difference approximations to the advection-condensation problem, Mon. Wea. Rev. 118: 2082-2097 (1990).
  • Shima, S. et al., The super-droplet method for the numerical simulation of clouds and precipitation: A particle-based and probabilistic microphysics model coupled with a non-hydrostatic model, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 135: 1307–1320 (2009).

        Additional references will be provided during the lectures.

COURSES MATERIALS
Lectures / Leader Lecture type

Gustavo Abade

June 8, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_08_june_2021.pdf
Lecture

Gustavo Abade

June 1, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_01_june_2021.pdf
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Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_25_may_2021.pdf
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Gustavo Abade

May 18, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_18_may_2021.pdf
Lecture

Daniel Albuquerque

May 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Exercise Sheet - Script for the classes
exercises_08.pdf
Tutorial Notes
ICM_Tutorial Notes_8.pdf
Class

Gustavo Abade

May 4, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_04_may_2021.pdf
Lecture

Gustavo Abade

April 27, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_27_apr_2021.pdf
Lecture

Daniel Albuquerque

April 27, 2021, 2 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Homework 5 - Script for the classes
homework_5.pdf
Class

Daniel Albuquerque

April 20, 2021, 2 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Exercise Sheet - Script for the classes
exercise_05.pdf
Tutorial Notes
ICM_Tutorial Notes_6.pdf
Class
Lecture documents:
Lecture board - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_20_apr_2021.pdf
Lecture
Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_13_apr_2021.pdf
Lecture

Daniel Albuquerque

April 13, 2021, 2 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Tutorial Notes
ICM_Tutorial Notes_5.pdf
Class

Daniel Albuquerque

March 30, 2021, 2 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Exercise Sheet - Script for the classes
exercises_04.pdf
Tutorial Notes
ICM_Tutorial Notes_4.pdf
Class

Daniel Albuquerque

March 23, 2021, 2 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Exercise Sheet - Script for the classes
exercises_03.pdf
Homework Sheet - Script for the classes
homework_03.pdf
Tutorial Notes
ICM_Tutorial Notes_3.pdf
Class

Daniel Albuquerque

March 16, 2021, 2 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Exercise Sheet - Script for the classes
exercises_02.pdf
Tutorial Notes
ICM_Tutorial Notes_2.pdf
Class

Daniel Albuquerque

March 9, 2021, 2 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Exercise Sheet - Script for the classes
exercises_01.pdf
Homework Sheet - Script for the classes
homework_01.pdf
Tutorial Notes
ICM_Tutorial Notes_1.pdf
Class

Gustavo Abade

March 30, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_30_mar_2021.pdf
Lecture
Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_23_mar_2021.pdf
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Gustavo Abade

March 9, 2021, 9:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture board - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_09_mar_2021.pdf
Lecture

Gustavo Abade

March 16, 2021, 9:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_lecture_board_16_mar_2021.pdf
Lecture

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