ATM S 211: Spring Quarter 2009
Climate and
Climate Change
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Course Outline ATM S 211
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Lecture Topic |
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Assignment |
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Week 1 |
Overview |
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3/30 |
Introduction
-- Timescales and predictability |
Chapter
1 |
Popper,
Quinn articles |
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3/31 |
Climate
change |
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4/1 |
Scientific
knowledge and society |
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4/2 |
Systems
and Daisyworld |
Chapter
2 |
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4/3 |
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Week 2 |
Planetary Energetics |
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4/6 |
Daisyworld |
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4/7 |
Radiation
balance -- Greenhouse problem |
Chapter
3 |
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4/8 |
Radiation
balance -- Greenhouse problem |
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4/9 |
Atmospheric
composition and structure |
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4/10 |
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Week 3 |
Atmospheres and Oceans |
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4/13 |
Clouds
and Feedback |
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4/14 |
Feedbacks
and Cloud Forcing |
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4/15 |
Atmospheric
circulation -- Hadley cell |
Chapter
4 |
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4/16 |
Atmospheric
circulation -- Seasonal cycle |
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4/17 |
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Week 4 |
Atmospheres and Oceans (continued) |
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4/20 |
Extratropics and monsoons |
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4/21 |
Hydrologic
cycle |
Chapter
5 |
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4/22 |
Ocean
circulation |
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4/23 |
El
Nino - Southern oscillation |
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4/24 |
Review
for Midterm 1 |
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Week 5 |
Biosphere |
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4/27 |
Midterm
1 |
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4/28 |
Global
climate models |
Chapter
6 |
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4/29 |
Carbon
14, radioactive dating |
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4/30 |
Carbon
cycle |
Chapter
8 |
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5/1 |
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Week 6 |
Mechanisms of climate change |
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5/4 |
Carbon
cycle continued |
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5/5 |
Solar
variability |
Chapter
12 |
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5/6 |
Snowball
earth |
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5/7 |
Ice
ages |
Chapter
14 |
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5/8 |
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Week 7 |
Short term climate change |
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5/11 |
Ice
ages (continued) |
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5/12 |
Aerosol
and volcanoes |
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5/13 |
Holocene
climate |
Chapter
15 |
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5/14 |
Ozone
hole |
Chapter
17 |
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5/15 |
Review
for Midterm 2 |
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Week 8 |
Global warming |
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5/18 |
Midterm
2 |
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5/19 |
Ozone
hole continued |
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5/20 |
Global
warming - the evidence |
Chapter
16 |
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5/21 |
CO2
and global warming |
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5/22 |
Predicting
the future |
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Week 9 |
Global Warming |
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5/25 |
Memorial
Day (No class) |
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5/26 |
Regional
climate change |
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5/27 |
Mitigation
and adaptation |
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5/28 |
Alternate
technologies and economics |
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5/29 |
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Week 10 |
What did we learn? |
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6/1 |
Geoengineering |
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6/2 |
Poster
day (1) |
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6/3 |
Poster
day (2) |
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6/4 |
Wrap-up |
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6/5 |
Review
for final |
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Final Examination |
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6/8 |
8:30 -- 10:20 AM |
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(Monday) |
Johnson 075 |
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