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PhD Candidate
Room 415, Madsen Building F09
Eastern Avenue, Camperdown, NSW, 2006
School of Geosciences, University of Sydney.
E-mail: nicholas.herold@usyd.edu.au
Phone: +61-2-9351-4257
Fax: +61-2-9036-6588
I started my PhD in 2007 with a focus on analysing output from the NCAR version 3 suite of climate models (CCSM). I am now learning how to use these models and how to apply them to palaeo situations. The aim is to run simulations of the Miocene Climatic Optimum (something which I focused on in my honours year) using the fully coupled CCSM, and, if time permits, to focus my attention on one other Cenozoic warm period (mainly the Late Oligocene Warming or the early Eocene Climatic Optimum).
Modelling Earth's deep past is fraught with difficulties which do not exist when modelling the modern day climate, or climate of the last several hundred thousand years. For this reason it seems, not as much research is focused on deep-time paeleo climate modelling. I plan to document my progress using the NCAR models and to create as generic a workflow as possible for conducting such experiments.
Curriculum Vitae
Presentations/Courses
Palaeogeography conference, Cambridge University, Reconstructing middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions, August 2008.
AGU Fall Meeting, Wet and wild summers during the middle Miocene? [.pdf], December 2007.
Stephen Griffies short course, Hobart, Ocean Modelling Fundamentals, November 2007.
Earth Dynamics: Understanding Nature's Fury, Australian National University, Australian Academy of Science, 100 years from now, lessons from the Miocene Climatic Optimum [.pptx], November 2007.
Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Doctoral Students Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Climate change in Earth's geological past [.ppt], July - August 2007.
Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, Urbino, Italy, July 2006.
Publications
Links
CCSM
Matthew Huber's Paleo CCSM wiki
NcView / Panoply / GrADS / ncBrowse / Ferret - netCDF file viewers.
EdGCM - an educational GCM based on the GISS Model II, can run in a desktop environment.
Introductory Physical Oceanography - consistently updated, advanced undergrad or graduate level textbook available online by Robert Stewart, Texas A&M University.
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