{"id":1288,"date":"2014-12-11T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mesas\/?page_id=1288"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:44:36","slug":"climate-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/teaching\/climate-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Dynamics (METR 4205 \/ ESCI 5205)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This course is now mainly taught by <a href=\"https:\/\/geoearth.charlotte.edu\/jacob-jack-scheff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Jack Scheff<\/a>. I developed the course just before Dr. Scheff joined UNC Charlotte and focused the material on Seasonal Weather Prediction, the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, and Modes of Climate Variability, drawing from climatology data repositories at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/climate-at-a-glance\/national\/time-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance<\/a>. We used the Multivariate ENSO Index shown below and from <a href=\"https:\/\/psl.noaa.gov\/enso\/mei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division<\/a>. Even though I haven&#8217;t taught the course for a while, research by some of my graduate students still touches on ENSO. In that spirit, below are the ENSO conditions according to NOAA MEI V2.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/enso\/mei\/img\/meiv2.timeseries.png\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"MEI\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course is now mainly taught by Professor Jack Scheff. I developed the course just before Dr. Scheff joined UNC Charlotte and focused the material on Seasonal Weather Prediction, the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, and Modes of Climate Variability, drawing from climatology data repositories at NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance. We used the Multivariate ENSO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2kjqv-kM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions\/2627"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}