John Shepherd

Lectures

Lecture course notes (as PDF files)

Earth System Modelling

1) The Earth System

2) Earth System Models

Fundamentals of Climate Dynamics

Note: the first seven of these lectures are text-only, without the associated illustrations

1) Simple Climate Models

2) One-dimensional (meridional) Energy Balance Models

3) One-dimensional (vertical) radiative-convective models

4) Two-dimensional (meridional-vertical) models

5) Biogeochemistry and Climate

6) The biogeochemistry of CO2

7) Palaeoclimatology & Ice Ages

8) Intermediate Complexity Climate Models

Fundamentals of Fish Stock Assessment

1) Life and Death in the Sea

2a) How Many Fish in the Sea ? (The Science of Fish Stock Assessment)

2b) How Many Fish could there be ? (The Science of Fish Stock Management)

3) Is Sustainable Management Possible ?

4) The Bioeconomics of Fisheries A vicious interaction ?