Climate Science

Catalog description

A synthesis of Earth's climate system. Areas of emphasis include: (1) scientific foundations of the study of Earth's climate system, climate dynamics and climate change, (2) basic understandings of Earth's climate system as a part of the overall Earth system and Earth's place in the solar system, (3) geological and instrumental record of climate, (4) human impacts on the climate system, including human vulnerability and response to climate change, and (5) contextualization of Earth's current climate with that of its geological past.