Earth-System Modeling Primer

Numerical models are widely used across all fields in Earth Sciences. This course introduces the basic concept of finite difference techniques for solving differential equations. The focus is on models that are applied in transport of matter and heat energy. Computer labs with examples from geochemistry and oceanography form the core of the course.

- understanding key conepts and assumptions underlying numerical models
- basic understanding of discretization in space and time using finite differences

Python basics and use of jupyter hub

mündliche Prüfung

will be provided during the lecture

Unterstützende digitale Lehrmaterialien verfügbar

1. SWS: Overview of model types and their application in Earth sciences
2. SWS: Dynamical systems, ordinary differential equations
3. SWS: Finite difference method, Euler method, from sci. question to model, exercise: radioactive decay
4. SWS: Reservoir models
5. SWS: Application: Salinity in the Mediterranean
6. SWS: Coupled reservoirs
7. SWS: Application: Phosphate distribution in the ocean
8. SWS: Sensitivity to model parameters
9. SWS: Extension to one spatial dimension
10. SWS: Application: Landslide model (diffusion)
11. SWS: Modeling transport processes (advection)
12. SWS: Application: Tracer transport model (helium and tritium in the ocean)
13. SWS: Tracer-transport model cont’d
14. SWS: Outlook: two and three spatial dimensions

Programmierung mit Python