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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Geophysics and Meteorology

MN-GM-PM

Study course:M.Sc. Physics of Earth and Atmosphere
Module:MN-GM-PM
TitlePrognostic Modelling (Prognostische Modellierung)
Module NumberWorkload CP DurationSemester
MN-GM-SOSYS180 h61 Semester WT
Person in Charge Y. Shao and J. Saur
Offering DepartmentInstitute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne
Applicability Course of StudyCategory Semester
M.Sc. Physics of Earth and Atmosphere Compulsory
Aims Prognostic numerical formulation of meteorological and geophysical problems; overview of numerical procedures and their properties; understanding of model capabilities, limitations and model results interpretations
Skills Translation of physical problems into numerical codes; scientific programming; model execution and data analysis
Content Basics of meteorological and geophysical prognostic modelling; numerical methods for ordinary and partial differential equations; numerical methods used in meteorological, geophysical and space-plasma prognostic models; initial and boundary conditions; meteorological, geophysical and space-plasma model examples
Prerequisites Basic knowledge of the geophysical fluid and linear algebra, basic knowledge of programming in Matlab, Fortran, C/C++ or similar.
Lectures Form, Theme Max. of Participants h/weekworkloadCP

Lecture

Exercise

30

2

2

60

120

2

4

ExaminationsForm of testing and examination Graded or not
Written ExaminationGraded
Requirements Successful participation in the exercises

Not graded

Miscellaneous Recommended Literature:?

Haltiner, J. and R.T. Williams, 1980: Numerical Prediction and Dynamic Meteorology, John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Coiffier, J., 2009: Fundamentals of Numerical Weather Prediction, Cambridge University Press.

Krishnamurti, T.N., H.S. Bedi, V.M. Hardiker and L. Ramaswamy, 2006: An Introduction to Global Spectral Modelling, Springer-Verlag.

Ames, W.F., 1977: Numerical methods for partial differential equations, Academic Press.

Fletcher, C. A. J., 1991: Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics, Springer-Verlag.

Hoffmann, J. D., 2001: Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists.

Shearer, P., 2009: Introduction to Seismology, Cambridge University Press.

Büchner et al., 2003: Space Plasma Simulation (Lecture Notes in Physics), Springer-Verlag.