Grotjahn, Richard
Land, Air and Water Resources
Area of interest
Atmospheric sciences general circulation, dynamics, numerical modeling, observations.
Courses related to research interest
Students working with me should know programming in a Linux environment. While I use some scripting languages: NCL and NCO, and some GUIs: IDV, Ferret, and extRemes, a good working ability in FORTRAN is relevant. In numerical modeling, FORTRAN is the overwhelming language of choice, while an alternative, such as C++ is inefficient and unwieldy or MATLAB has insufficient capacity and capability.
Other coursework depends on the problem of mutual interest. Some of what I do is heavy modeling work, some is purely statistical analysis of archived datasets. The former would benefit from course ATM255 - Advanced Numerical Modeling. The latter would benefit from some statistics courses (but not need ATM255).
As for a course list:
ATM150 - Introduction to Computer Methods in Physical Sciences (or an equivalent FORTRAN introduction to basic numerical analysis methods)
a course in linear algebra (for setting up matrix equations)
one or more courses in partial differential equations (needed for the fluid dynamics equations)
ATM121AB - Atmospheric Dynamics (or an equivalent sequence of fluid dynamics coursework)
a course in time series analysis (recommended, but not required)
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