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ATMS 211:
Climate and Climate Change
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WEEK 1: Introduction to Global Climate Change
Lecture 2: Three global changes issues. Climate vs. weather.           Forcings.
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Lecture 3:  More on global warming.  Intro to atmospheric   structure.
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Lecture 4: Intro to ozone depletion: A brief history of ozone and CFCs
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WEEK 2: Ozone Depletion
Lecture 5: UV and biology;  Where ozone comes from.
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Lecture 6: Catalytic destruction of ozone.
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Lecture 7: The ozone hole.
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Lecture 8: The ozone debate and ozone misinformation
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WEEK 3: Systems
Lecture 9: Introduction to systems
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Lecture 10: Daisyworld
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WEEK 4: Greenhouse effect
Lecture 11: Daisyworld debrief, Intro to greenhouse effect
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Lecture 12: Planets and radiation
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Lecture 13: Planetary energy balance; Atmos. structure recap
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Lecture 14: Greenhouse gases
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WEEK 5: Atmospheric  and oceanic circulation
Lecture 15: Introduction to terminology; Hadley circulation
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Lecture 16: Tropical, extratropical circulations
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Lecture 17: Ocean currents and circulations
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Lecture 18: Gyres, boundary currents, and the THC
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WEEK 6: Evolution of Earth's climate and atmosphere
Lecture 19: Geological timescale; Origin of Earth's atmosphere
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Lecture 20: More on origin of the atmosphere; Geologic carbon cycle
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Lecture 21: Prebiotic atmosphere; effect of life; oxygenation
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Lecture 22: Rise of oxygen in the atmosphere
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WEEK 7: More ancient climate: Ice ages, volcanoes & solar variability
Lecture 23: Recap on oxygen history; Snowball Earth
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Lecture 24: Overview of Mesozoic & Cenozoic climate. Intro to Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles
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Lecture 25:  Glacial-interglacial cycles. Relevance to global warming.
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WEEK 8: Global warming science
Lecture 26:  Guest lecture: Evidence for global warming (Prof. Richard Gammon)
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Lecture 27:  The Millennial temperature record & proxy data
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Lecture 28:  Climate change caused by volcanoes and the Sun
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Lecture 29:  The El Nino Southern Oscillation
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WEEK 9: Global warming debate
Lecture 30:  Human-perturbed carbon cycle
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Lecture 31:  Guest lecture: Aerosol forcing and causal attribution of global warming (Prof. Tad Anderson)
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Lecture 32:  Projected future global warming; sea-level rise
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Lecture 33: Sea-level rise continued; Global warming "skeptics"
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This lecture was accompanied by a handout on global warming "skeptics"
WEEK 10: Global warming impacts and policy solutions
Lecture 34:  Guest lecture: Impacts in the Pacific Northwest (Prof. Phil Mote - state climatologist for Washington State)
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Lecture 35: Global warming impact on biology
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Lecture 36: Global warming solutions/policies (FINAL LECTURE)
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Review sheet to help with revising for the final.



                   

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Contact the instructor at: davidc@atmos.washington.edu