Global Atmospheric Change

Catalog description

This course will explore processes that determine Earth’s climate and its response to change. We will apply techniques to understand how dynamic, thermodynamic, and radiative processes distribute energy throughout the climate system, drive climate feedbacks, and determine climate sensitivity. The course will apply these concepts to explore how atmospheric, hydrologic, solar/orbital, natural, and human processes influence past, present, and future climate. We will also study characteristic modes of atmospheric and climate variability (e.g., El Niño-Southern Oscillation).