Links to class notes will be inserted below the week before lectures.

Week 1 Notes

• Monday September 30, 2002: Discussion of class scope and syllabus. 
• Tuesday October 1, 2002: Synopsis of Chapter 1 in textbook.
• Wednesday October 2, 2002: Climate vs weather and Systems and feedback loops
• Thursday October 3, 2002: Daisyworld 
• Friday October 4, 2002: Radiation

• Monday October 7: Planetary energy balance
• Tuesday October 8: The greenhouse effect
• Wednesday October 9: Convection
• Thursday October 10: Moist convection

• Tuesday October 15: Poleward transport of heat by atmospheric motions
• Wednesday October 16: Global patterns of rainfall and temperature
• Thursday October 17: Climate zones and their connection to atmospheric circulation

• Monday October 21: Ocean structure; Wind-driven ocean circulation
• Tuesday October 22: Thermohaline circulation
• Wednsday October 23: El Nino

• Monday October 28: Plate tectonics
• Tuesday October 29: Carbon cycle I
• Wednesday October 30: Carbon cycle I and Carbon cycle II
• Thursday October 31: Cryosphere

• Monday November 4: Evolution of the atmosphere; rise of oxygen
• November 5-7: Climate over the last 100-1 million years

• Wednesday Nov 20+Thrusday Nov 21: Stratospheric ozone
• Friday Nov 22: Human perturbations to the carbon cycle and other greenhouse gases

• Monday Nov 25: The great climate debate, Part I: is the Earth really warming?
• Tuesday +Wednesday Nov 26+27: The great climate debate, Part II: are humans responsible? and The great climate debate, Part III: what will be the impacts globally and on the Northwest?. Much of the info in these two guest lectures can be found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report: Climate Change 2001 "The scientific basis", summary for policymakers, read it online, or download a PDF file here. For impacts, refer to "Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"

• Monday Dec 2: The great climate debate, Part IV: What will the furture look like?
• Tuesday Dec 3: International policies to slow climate change
• Wednesday Dec 4:Actions to slow climate change
• Thursday Dec 5:Climate change and air quality: What are the issues?

 Last Updated:
12/5/2002