CS382:Chaos

Background Reading

• Making Order Out of Chaos: Edward Lorenz
• Edward N. Lorenz "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow"
• Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow (1963)
• James Gleick "Chaos: Making a New Science"

Lecture Note

• Lecture 1:
  • Story of Edward Lorenz
  • How he found butterfly effect
  • Introducing the weather model which Lorenz used

• Lecture 2:
  • Climate model
  • Introducing NetLogo-like climate model
  • Basic of earth science (showing the relationship among temperature, pressure, wind, and humidity)

• Lecture 3:
  • Numerical weather prediction
  • Introducing how weather channel forecasts tomorrow's climate
  • Different between numerical weather prediction and deterministic climate model

• Lecture 4:
  • Global warming
  • Can computer scientist predict climate 100 years later?
  • Super computer for climate model (earth simulator, etc)