Mathematics and Climate

• Sea Ice in the Global Climate System
  by Kenneth M. Golden, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah; Elizabeth Hunke, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Cecilia Bitz, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington; and Marika Holland, National Center for Atmospheric Research

• Part 1: The basics and significance of sea ice.
• Part 2: The challenges in sea ice research.
• Part 3: Some of Ken’s adventures doing sea ice research in the Arctic and Antarctic.
• Part 4: Ken concludes talking about involving undergraduates in sea ice research and the connection between his research and modeling bone porosity and air flow through lungs.

Note the Mathematical Moment referred to in this interview is Going with the Floes

• Chaotic Convection in a Toy Climate
  by Christopher M. Danforth, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Complex Systems Center, Vermont Advanced Computing Center, University of Vermont

• Hurricanes and Climate
  by Kerry A. Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Part 1: In the first part, Emanuel gives some background on hurricane forecasts and the impact of hurricanes on the climate.
• Part 2: In the second part, Emanuel continues on forecasting hurricanes and concludes with a call to young people to take up the research necessary to advance the field.

• Global climate models
  by Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California, Berkeley

• Global climate models

• Mathematics in Energy Production
  by Margot Gerritsen, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Mechanical and Civil & Environmental Engineering by courtesy, Stanford University

• Part 1: Mathematics’ role in extracting fossil fuels.
• Part 2: Math’s use in alternative energies.

• A Math Student’s Journey to Antarctica
  by Adam Gully, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

• Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise
  by David Holland, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

• Part 1: Some of the basics of land ice.
• Part 2: In the second half, Holland speaks about the rapid disappearance of land ice in some areas, and the need for new math and science to analyze that disappearance.

• What individuals and governments can do to help mitigate climate change.
  by Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor of Utah

• What individuals and governments can do to help mitigate climate change.

• An Arctic Adventure for an Undergraduate Math Student
  by Megan Morris, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

• Rainfall in the climate system: changes under global warming, and challenges for climate modelers
  by J. David Neelin, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

• Part 1: Tropical climate variability, especially El Niño.
• Part 2: The complexity of climate models

• Uncertainty in Climate Predictions
  by Douglas Nychka, Director of the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) and Senior Scientist in the Geophysical Statistics Project (GSP), National Center for Atmospheric Research; Juan M. Restrepo, University of Arizona; and Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central

• Nychka talks about the statistics related to the climate, and about dealing with the uncertainty associated with climate models.

• How satellites monitor the climate.
  by Jay Zwally, Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

• How satellites monitor the climate.

Curriculum Ideas

• Empower Your Students: Bring a State of the Planet Course to Your School
  by Thomas Eisner, Lynn E. Fletcher, Jason G. Hamilton, David P. McCobb, and Mary Lou Zeeman

• Global Climate Models, Their Relevance to Undergraduate Education, and the Need for Mathematics
  by Mary Lou Zeeman, R. Wells Johnson Professor of Mathematics, Bowdoin College.

• Global Climate Models, Their Relevance to Undergraduate Education, and the Need for Mathematics.

• Climate in the Calculus Classroom
  by Thomas J. Pfaff, Department of Mathematics, Ithaca College.
  See Tom Pfaff's sustainability page for data and sample worksheets.