Programming in service of climatology

Duration

15h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Xavier Fettweis

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Compared to CLIM0014 Partim 1, the lectures deepen some notions in Fortran and introduce the students to the shell BASH on Linux and the graphic tool Ferret used to plot the model outputs as well as the climate data set (e.g.: the reanalysis). Only the elements of Fortran/Linux used in climatology will be teach.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The lectures aim to familiarize the students to some computer tools (Linux, Fortran and Ferret) used to process the climate data and, to run and analyze the climate models.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

CLIM0014-1 Programmation au service de la climatologie (partim 1)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The exercises asked every week will be mainly do during the tutorials where the teacher will be present to help the students.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

This course is based on the concept "project-based learning" i.e. every week, the student has to resolve a programming exercises for the next week. The theoretical basis will be teach in the previous lecture.

Recommended or required readings

Reference articles are presented to the students during the first lesson.
The pdf files of the lecture slides are available for the students on http://www.climato.be/cours

Assessment methods and criteria

Each student has to resolve on his computer a small problem using Fortran, Linux and Ferret.
Three evaluated exercices (2h) will be proposed to the students as well as a mock exam (4h). The ones will be taken into account as bonus in the final evaluation.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Dr. Xavier Fettweis, Department of Geography - Laboratory of Climatology Web: http://www.climato.be/fettweis

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