Lectures on Climate Modeling

This is a series of lectures on climate modeling, which is sponsored by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Seminar. This series is offered as a part of the 2001-2002 IMA Year on Mathematics and the Geosciences.

6 November 2001

  • Speaker: Professor George R Sell, University of Minnesota
  • Topic: Quasiperiodic Dynamics and Climate Modeling: An Introduction, I

  • Time: 11:15
  • Location: IMA Seminar Room, 409 Lind Hall

    Abstract: Quasiperiodic dynamics is a mathematical theory which began in the work of Harold Bohr in the early 1900s. The object of this introductory lecture is (1) to give a survey of the major developments in this theory and (2) to show how it can arise as a fundamental factor in the study of the longtime dynamics of the climate. One example is the Milankovitch forcing in the model of the ice age phenomena presented in the earlier IMA lecture of Tziperman.

    20 November 2001

  • Speaker: Professor George R Sell, University of Minnesota
  • Topic: Quasiperiodic Dynamics and Climate Modeling: An Introduction, II

  • Time: 11:15
  • Location: IMA Seminar Room, 409 Lind Hall

    Abstract: Quasiperiodic dynamics is a mathematical theory which began in the work of Harold Bohr in the early 1900s. The object of this introductory lecture is (1) to give a survey of the major developments in this theory and (2) to show how it can arise as a fundamental factor in the study of the longtime dynamics of the climate. One example is the Milankovitch forcing in the model of the ice age phenomena presented in the earlier IMA lecture of Tziperman.

    Professor George R. Sell
    School of Mathematics
    University of Minnesota
    206 Church Street SE
    Minneapolis MN 55455
    USA

    Phone: 612-625-8381
    Fax: 612-626-2017
    email: sell@math.umn.edu
    http://www.math.umn.edu/~sell