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These Lecture Notes form the basis of a one-semester course taught at the Physics Institute and the Oeschger Centre of Climate Change Research of the University of Bern. The main goals of this course are: 1. To introduce the students to the physical basis and the mathematical description of the different components of the climate system. 2. To provide the students with a first approach to the numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations using examples from climate modelling.
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Stocker, T. (2011). Introduction. In: Introduction to Climate Modelling. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00773-6_1
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