CLASS NOTES
WEEK 1
Introduction
Climate vs weather and chap 1
Discussion worksheet
WEEK 2
Global warming; Intro to Systems
Systems and Feedbacks
Daisyworld
Radiation
Discussion worksheet
WEEK 3
Radiation
Global Energy Balance: the Greenhouse Effect
Global Energy Balance: the Greenhouse Effect
Global Energy Balance: Global warming, Feedbacks
Discussion worksheet
WEEK 4
Feedbacks and Clouds
Convection in the atmosphere
Atmospheric Circulation
| Global Patterns of Temperature and Rainfall;Climate zones ; |
WEEK 5
Hydrosphere; Ocean structure
Wind-driven ocean circulation
Circulation of the deep ocean
Discussion worksheet
WEEK 6
El Nino animation
Plate tectonics animation
Carbon Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Discussion
WEEK 7
Evolution of atmosphere; rise of oxygen
The past 3 billion years; Snowball Earth
Pleistocene glaciations
Discussion Session
WEEK 8
Stratospheric ozone depletion I
Stratospheric ozone depletion II
Stratospheric ozone depletion III
WEEK 9
How do human activities contribute to climate change?
What are the global and local impacts of climate change?
What will the future look like?
What can we do? International Policy
WEEK 10
What can we do? New energy sources
Last
Updated:
10/03/2007
Contact
the instructor at: jaegle@atmos.washington.edu