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Date
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Lecture Topic
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Assignments and Reading
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Week 1: Introduction
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| W 1/3 |
Course Goals, Schedule, Guidelines; Overview |
Read Chapter 1 of the text this week |
| T 1/4 |
Defining the Issues/Overview |
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| F 1/5 |
Discussion: Math survey; Common Misconceptions |
Math Survey, with
answers. |
Week 2: Systems and Change
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 1/8 |
Earth Subsystems |
Read Chapter 2 this week
News article summary due |
| T 1/9 |
Energy: Forms and Change |
Lecture questions |
| W 1/10 |
Change and No Change: Rates and Equilibrium |
Sink results due |
| T 1/11 |
Analysis of Change: Time Series Statistics |
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| F 1/12 |
Discussion: Review Math and Units |
Slides from section
Problem Set 1 Assigned
Climate Related Seminar
Quiz 1 solutions |
Week 3: Radiation and Temperature
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 1/15 |
Holiday; No class |
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| T 1/16 |
Light Energy – Radiation |
Read Chapter 3, pages 35–41 this week |
| W 1/17 |
Black Body Radiation – Temperature |
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| T 1/18 |
Earth's Energy Balance with no Atmosphere |
Quiz 2 solutions |
| F 1/19 |
Discussion: Review Math |
Problem Set 1 Due
Questions from section
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Week 4: Earth's Atmosphere's Greenhouse Effect
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 1/22 |
Earth's Energy Balance with an Absorbing Atmosphere |
Detailed notes from
lecture |
| T 1/23 |
What Makes a Good Greenhouse Gas? |
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| W 1/24 |
Earth's Atmosphere: Composition and Structure |
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| T 1/25 |
Earth's Atmosphere: Composition and Structure |
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| F 1/26 |
Discussion: Greenhouse Effects on Other Planets |
Slides from discussion |
Week 5: Atmospheric Motions and Climate
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 1/29 |
General Circulation 1: A Heat Engine |
Problem Set 2 Due |
| T 1/30 |
General Circulation 2: Regional Climates |
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| W 1/31 |
Vertical Transport: Greenhouse Effect Connection |
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| T 2/1 |
Cloud Formation and Types: Warmers or Coolers? |
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| F 2/2 |
Discussion: Midterm 1 Covering Weeks 1–4 |
Review |
Week 6: Couplings and Feedbacks
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 2/5 |
Atmosphere-Ocean Couplings 1 |
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| T 2/6 |
Atmosphere-Ocean Couplings 2 |
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| W 2/7 |
Climate Feedbacks: Definitions and First Examples |
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| T 2/8 |
Climate Feedbacks: Ice/Snow, Clouds, Ocean, etc. |
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| F 2/9 |
Discussion: Gaia Hypothesis |
Gaia Paper |
Week 7: The Carbon Cycle
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 2/12 |
Carbon Chemistry |
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| T 2/13 |
Unperturbed Carbon Cycle 1 |
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| W 2/14 |
Unperturbed Carbon Cycle 2 |
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| T 2/15 |
Perturbed Carbon Cycle |
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| F 2/16 |
Discussion: How Much Fossil Fuel Is There |
Slides from discussion |
Week 8: Ozone hole Chapter 17
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 2/19 |
Holiday; No class |
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| T 2/20 |
Ozone Hole and Global Warming Are Different |
Read WMO
20 Questions and Answers about Ozone |
| W 2/21 |
Ozone Hole and Global Warming Are Different |
More
information from WMO |
| T 2/22 |
Ozone Hole and Global Warming Are Related |
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| F 2/23 |
Discussion: Midterm 2 Covering Weeks 5–7 |
Review |
Week 9: Climate Variations: Long and Short Term
Lecture slides:
PPT
PDF
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| M 2/26 |
Earth's Early History and Atmosphere |
Problem Set 4 Due |
| T 2/27 |
Climate of the Distant Past: Snowball Earth |
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| W 2/28 |
Climate of the Recent Past: Pleistocene Glaciations |
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| T 3/1 |
Present Day Climate Variations: El Niņo |
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| F 3/2 |
First Poster Session |
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Week 10: What Will the Future Bring?
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| M 3/5 |
Second Poster Session (Normal Monday Room) |
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| T 3/6 |
Special Lecture: Climate of Mars
Slides: PPT
PDF
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Mars
Links
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| W 3/7 |
Simulating Future Climate, Committed Warming and Expected Consequences |
Project Paper Due |
| T 3/8 |
Calculating the Costs of Change
Slides for Wed & Thu
PPT
PDF |
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| F 3/9 |
Discussion: Conclusions and Course Evaluations |
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| M 3/12 |
Final Exam 8:30—10:20 am
Comprehensive, with extra emphasis on weeks 8–10,
including week 10's guest lectures.
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