Practicals

Prac 1. Carbon cycle modelling

To download the models, right click and 'save link targets as'. Select a location on the hard drive (e.g. c:\temp\). Use STELLA to open the model in the location you saved it.

Click here to download the 'steadystatecarbon.stm' model (ZIP 5KB).
Click here to download the Fossil fuel usage data (EXCEL 31KB).
Click here to download the 'currentcarbon.stm' model (ZIP 5KB).
Click here for the carbon modelling handout

Prac 2. ENSO Prac

ENSO prac handout
ENSO Excel data
ENSO reference for reading

Prac 3. Spectral analysis of Quaternary time series and Milankovitch forcing

Click here to view the handout. (PDF 21KB)
Click here to download the EXCEL data
Some information about time series analysis.
A reference reading for SPECTRUM "Schulz M. & Stattegger K. (1997). SPECTRUM: spectral analysis of unevenly spaced paleoclimatic time series. Computers & Geosciences 23: 929-945." (PDF 820 kb).
Wang, X. et al. (1999) A record of fire, vegetation and climate through the last three glacial cycles from Lombok Ridge core G6-4, eastern Indian Ocean, Indonesia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 147: 241–256.
Milankovitch cycles notes

Prac 4. Tree rings

Click here for the prac handout (PDF 149KB)
Click here to download the tree ring data (EXCEL file 326KB).

Prac 5. Aerosols

Handout (PDF 331KB)
Data set 1 (EXCEL 45KB)
Data set 2 (EXCEL 44KB)
Data set 3 (EXCEL 42KB)
Nanoparticle Climatology at Cape Grim (PDF 764KB)

Practicals

Prac 1. Carbon cycle modelling

Prac 3. Spectral analysis of Quaternary time series and Milankovitch forcing

Prac 4. Tree rings

Prac 5. Aerosols

Prac 6. Media analysis