Out: 12/06 19:00
Due: 12/20 19:00
Collaboration:
Collaboration on solving the assignment is allowed, after you have thought about the problem sets on your own. It is also OK to get clarification (but not solutions) from online resources, again after you have thought about the problem sets on your own. There are two requirements:
Cite your collaborators fully and completely (e.g., “XXX explained to me what is asked in problem set 3”). Or cite online resources (e.g., “I got inspired by reading XXX”) that helped you.
Write your scripts and report independently - the scripts and report must come from you only.
Submitting your assignment:
Please write a report PS5.pdf.
Create a jupyter notebook named PS5.ipynb.
Upload your jupyter notebook AND report to your
Github ESE5023_Assignments_XXX repository (where
XXX is your SUSTech ID) before the due time.
Late Submission:
Late submissions will not receive any credit. The submission time will be determined based on your latest GitHub file records.
In this problem, we will build a box model to understand the Earth’s carbon cycle based on the framework in Tomizuka 2009.
1.1 [15 points] Following equation 1-2 (without the buffer effect), build a two-box model to compute the atmospheric CO2 level in ppm (parts per million) from 1987 to 2004.
1.2 [20 points] Following equation 3-4 (with the buffer effect), build a two-box model to compute the atmospheric CO2 level in ppm from 1987 to 2004.
1.3 [5 points] Based on your results from 1.1 and 1.2, reproduce Figure 2 in Tomizuka (2009) as much as you can.
[Bonus] [15 points] Following equation 5-13, compute the atmospheric CO2 level in ppm and reproduce Figure 4 in Tomizuka (2009).
Useful data sets:
Source: Tomizuka (2009), Is a box model effective for understanding the carbon cycle?, American Journal of Physics, 77, 156, doi: 10.1119/1.3013196.