SIO115 Ice and the Climate System
Syllabus & Timetable 2017
Monday/Wednesday/Friday 11am in Revelle Conference Room (4301)
Please put your cell phones/iPhones etc away before coming into my classes. If you are a medical person on call, or if you have children or if there is some other legitimate reason why you might need to take a phone call during my class, then let me know. But otherwise, please do not text/surf the web/whatever during my classes!
Homework is assigned each Friday and due the following Friday.
HELPFUL NOTES TO ASSIST IN PAPER READING AND DISCUSSION
Week 1. Introduction to the Cryosphere in the Earth System
Additional reading: Chapter 1 of "The Cryosphere" by Shawn Marshall.
Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of the UNEP Report
Homework 1 (due Friday 20 January): The cryosphere and its importance for climate
- 9 January: Elements of the cryosphere; importance of the cryosphere (Matt Siegfried) Week 1 lecture slides
- 11 January: Role of the cryosphere in the climate system; sea-level change
- 13 January: paper & book discussion
Additional reading: Chapter 1 of "The Cryosphere" by Shawn Marshall.
Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of the UNEP Report
Homework 1 (due Friday 20 January): The cryosphere and its importance for climate
Week 2. Past climate change and past climate records
Additional reading: Ice cores sections of "The Cryosphere" by Shawn Marshall (see Index).
Homework 2 (due Friday 27 January): Ice ages and ice cores Data for homework Icecore_data.txt NHinso1.txt
- 16 January: MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY -- NO CLASS
- 18 January: Ice cores (Matt Siegfried) Video All lecture slides
- 20 January: Ice ages (Jeff Severinghaus guest lecture) paper discussion
Additional reading: Ice cores sections of "The Cryosphere" by Shawn Marshall (see Index).
Homework 2 (due Friday 27 January): Ice ages and ice cores Data for homework Icecore_data.txt NHinso1.txt
Week 3. Past climate change and past climate records, contd - Snow cover
Greenland Ice Sheet Ice Age video
Homework 3 (due Friday 3 Febuary): Snow cover and lake ice
- 23 January: Paper discussion for ice cores and ice ages (Lorius and Petit)
- 25 January: Snow cover All lecture slides
- 27 January: River Ice and lake Ice
Greenland Ice Sheet Ice Age video
Homework 3 (due Friday 3 Febuary): Snow cover and lake ice
Week 4. Lake ice & permafrost
Chapter 7 of UNEP report NEW UNEP REPORT ON PERMAFROST
Duguay 2005 AGU book chapter
WATCH: AWI video on Permafrost
AGU 2015 Fall meeting press conference on Permafrost
- 30 January: Permafrost Lecture slides
- 1 February: Permafrost
- 3 February: Permafrost contd
Discussion papers on permafrost:
Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost Minsley et al., 2012
The impact of the permafrost carbon feedback on global climate Schaefer et al., 2014
Chapter 7 of UNEP report NEW UNEP REPORT ON PERMAFROST
Duguay 2005 AGU book chapter
WATCH: AWI video on Permafrost
AGU 2015 Fall meeting press conference on Permafrost
Homework 4 (due Friday 10 February): Permafrost
Week 5. Sea ice
Arctic Sea-ice 101 (Program Manager Tom Wagner)
Suggested additional reading: Chapter 5 of "The Cryosphere" (~20 easy pages)
Chapter 5 of UNEP report Arctic Report Card 2014 (see 18 December item on class media page)
Homework 5 (due Friday 17 February): Sea ice
- 6 February: Sea ice; ice-albedo feedback; sea-ice types Lectures
- 8 February: Sea ice growth; monitoring sea-ice extent and thickness
- 10 February: Future projections; fast ice. All lecture slides Discussion papers: article in the Huffington Post Laxon et al., 2013 Schroeder et al., 2014
Arctic Sea-ice 101 (Program Manager Tom Wagner)
Suggested additional reading: Chapter 5 of "The Cryosphere" (~20 easy pages)
Chapter 5 of UNEP report Arctic Report Card 2014 (see 18 December item on class media page)
Homework 5 (due Friday 17 February): Sea ice
Week 6. Land ice: Glaciers and ice caps (GIC)
World Glacier Monitoring Service
Huffington Post article about Maurer et al., Scientific American update on Alaskan Glaciers
Glacier animation shown in class
READ INSTRUCTIONS FOR TERM PAPER
Homework 6 (due Friday 24 February): Glacier mass budget
Please research your term paper to the point that you can answer question 1 on next week's homework:
1. Term paper. By now you should have a topic picked out for your term paper. Please write a concise, clear paragraph (150-200 words) on what your topic is about, and provide three real peer-reviewed references that you have looked at on this topic. [10]
- 13 February: Introduction to glaciers; contribution of GIC to sea-level; transformation of snow to ice All lecture slides
- 15 February: Glacier mass balance (Matt Siegfried)
- 17 February: Glacier mass balance & measurement (Matt Siegfried) Discussion paper: Gardner et al., 2013, Maurer et al., 2016
World Glacier Monitoring Service
Huffington Post article about Maurer et al., Scientific American update on Alaskan Glaciers
Glacier animation shown in class
READ INSTRUCTIONS FOR TERM PAPER
Homework 6 (due Friday 24 February): Glacier mass budget
Please research your term paper to the point that you can answer question 1 on next week's homework:
1. Term paper. By now you should have a topic picked out for your term paper. Please write a concise, clear paragraph (150-200 words) on what your topic is about, and provide three real peer-reviewed references that you have looked at on this topic. [10]
Week 7. Land ice: Ice sheets (Greenland & Antarctica)
Homework 7 (due Friday 3 March): Glaciers and ice sheets
- 20 February: PRESIDENTS DAY HOLIDAY - NO CLASS
- 22 February: Mass balance of ice sheets; ice streams All lecture slides
- 24 February: Ice-ocean interaction; basal melting; surface melting; iceberg calving -- Greenland and Antarctica
Homework 7 (due Friday 3 March): Glaciers and ice sheets
Week 8. Land ice: Ice sheets (Greenland & Antarctica)
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Homework 8 (due Friday 10 March): Glacier and ice sheet dynamics & hydrology
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- 27 February: surface melting in Greenland Discussion paper: Rignot et al., 2002
- 1 March: Glacier dynamics: creep; flow-law; force balance ice dynamics Ice dynamics (Matt Siegfried) All lecture slides
- 3 March: Subglacial water; subglacial processes; subglacial lakes Discussion paper: Fenty et al. 2016
Homework 8 (due Friday 10 March): Glacier and ice sheet dynamics & hydrology
Week 9. Changes in glaciers and ice sheets
Read 2014 media page about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet instability
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No homework -- work on your presentation and term paper.
- 6 March: Subglacial lakes; glacier surges (Anders Damsgaard) Lecture slides Discussion paper: Stearns et al., 2008
- 8 March: Marine ice sheet instability; ice sheet changes (Matt Siegfried) Discussion paper: Sundal et al., 2011
- 10 March: Ice sheet changes & future predictions Discussion paper: Joughin and others, 2014
Read 2014 media page about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet instability
**** PLEASE FILL IN YOUR CAPE FORMS http://www.cape.ucsd.edu ****
No homework -- work on your presentation and term paper.
Week 10. Student presentations of term papers (10 minutes each)
Please send me your presentation ahead of time so I can get them uploaded on my computer
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Please show up to all term paper presentations to support your fellow students!
Final term papers are due in class on Friday 17th March, typed up and printed out as a hard-copy on both sides of the paper.
There will be no exceptions to this deadline unless there is a valid medical reason.
Link to VICE program on Antarctic mass loss
Please send me your presentation ahead of time so I can get them uploaded on my computer
**** PLEASE FILL IN YOUR CAPE FORMS http://www.cape.ucsd.edu ****
- 13 March: Susheel Adusumilli; David Bielsik; Samuel Bunarjo; Claudia Coleman; Nathan Cusson Nadeau
- 15 March: Sarah Douglas; Austin Grodt; Chloe Gustafson; Haejo Kim; Rohan Kurse;
- 17 March: Allison Lee; Alondra Santarriaga-Meza; Aidan Setran; Christina Youkhana
Please show up to all term paper presentations to support your fellow students!
Final term papers are due in class on Friday 17th March, typed up and printed out as a hard-copy on both sides of the paper.
There will be no exceptions to this deadline unless there is a valid medical reason.
Link to VICE program on Antarctic mass loss
Week 11. Exam week
EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Final Exam Monday 20th March 2017
SIO115 2017 EXAM due by 3pm PDT (see below)
Email your exam to hafricker@ucsd.edu with the subject line “SIO115: Final Exam 2017” and name your file “Lastname-SIO115_Final2017.PDF or doc”. The deadline is a strict deadline with no excuses!
Good luck everyone !
EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Final Exam Monday 20th March 2017
SIO115 2017 EXAM due by 3pm PDT (see below)
Email your exam to hafricker@ucsd.edu with the subject line “SIO115: Final Exam 2017” and name your file “Lastname-SIO115_Final2017.PDF or doc”. The deadline is a strict deadline with no excuses!
Good luck everyone !
Course texts
CliC Intergrated Global Observing Strategy Report:
| igos-cryos_theme_report.pdf |
IPCC AR5 Chapter 4 (FINAL DRAFT)
