Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	İklim Modellemesi
	English	Climate Modelling
Course Code	MTO 514E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	-	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Yurdanur Ünal
Course Objectives		The objectives of the course i) to teach the art and practice of climate models with varied complexity: the progression from simple to complex models, and model evaluation. ii) to develop intuition for the relative importance of different factors and the scale of natural phenomena.
Course Description		Descriptions of climate models, descriptions of model structures (grid spacing numerical schemes, etc.) and parameterizations, and examples of applying models of various types to climate problems. Techniques to evaluate the climate model outputs.
Course Outcomes
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities		Computer Lab
Other
Textbook		A climate modelling primer, McGuffie and Henderson-Sellers, 1999 Frontiers of Climate Modeling, Kiehl and Ramanathan, 2006 Various journal papers, rellated to the topic and distributed in class.
Other References		Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling, by Mark. Z. Jacobson.