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EAS 48800/B8800/SUS7300 Climate & Climate Change Spring 2017 Instructor: Prof. Johnny Luo, Office: MR-927, 212-650-8936, [email protected]; Time: M/W 2:00-3:15pm; Location: MR044; Grader: TBA Office hours: after class (3:30-4:30pm) or by appointment (212-650-8936) Class website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~luo/EAS488; General Description: This class is intended introduce to students the modern study of the Earth’s climate system – Climate Science. Climate Science has evolved rapidly in the past decades and has become a “melting pot” of a number of disciplines including meteorology, climatology, oceanography, hydrology, etc. New observation and analysis tools have also been developed, the most notable of which are Earth-orbiting satellites and global climate models. In this class, students will first learn the fundamentals of the Earth’s climate system and will then move on to study how climate changes. Students will also learn to use a programming language (e.g., Matlab) to analyze gridded climate data. Prerequisites: Math 201/202, Physics 203/204 or 207/208, or by permission of instructor. Programming experience (e.g., Matlab) is highly desirable. (Note: this class needs quite some quantitative skills in math/physics and computer programming). Textbooks: (Required) Global Physical Climatology, by Dennis L. Hartmann, Academic Press 1994. (Suggested) Physics of Climate, by Jose Peixoto and Abraham Oort, Springer, 1992. (Suggested for Matlab) Matlab Recipes for Earth Sciences, M. H. Trauth, Springer, 2010 Grading: Homework In-classtests FinalProject FinalExam Undergrad 10% 30% 30%(presentation) 30% Graduate 10% 30% 40%(presentation+termpaper) 20% Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe different components of the climate system 2. Describe factors affecting global energy balance; be able to use Matlab to calculate and plot solar insolation as a function of time and latitude. 3. Understand solar and IR radiation transfer through the atmosphere; Apply the radiative transfer knowledge to calculate surface temperature under radiativeconvective equilibrium (using, for example, a 2-layer model) 4. Describe various circulations of the atmosphere (e.g., Hadley Cell) and the Ocean (e.g., Thermohaline circulation) 5. Understand climate sensitivity and climate feedback; be able to analyze different feedback mechanisms (e.g., water vapor feedback, ice albedo feedback, etc.) 6. Describe various natural (e.g., orbital variations) and anthropogenic climate forcing mechanisms (e.g., increasing greenhouse gasses); assess their importance in determining climate change. Course Outlines: (Note: weekly plan may be subject to small changes) Dates Jan30 Feb1 Feb6 Feb8 Feb13 Feb15 Feb20 Feb22 Feb27 Mar1 Mar6 Mar8 Mar13 Mar15 Mar20 Mar22 Mar27 Mar29 Apr3 Apr5 Apr10 Apr12 Apr17 Apr19 Apr20 Apr24 Apr26 May1 May3 May8 May10 May15 May17 EAS488Topics Introductiontoclimatesystem TheEarth’senergybalanceI TheEarth’senergybalanceII TheEarth’senergybalanceIII Noclass(Lincoln’sBirthday) Atmosphericradiation&climateI Noclass(President’sDay) In-classLab1:UseofMatlabtoaccessandplotgriddeddata Atmosphericradiation&climateII Test1 SurfaceenergybalanceI SurfaceenergybalanceII AtmosphericgeneralcirculationI AtmosphericgeneralcirculationII AtmosphericgeneralcirculationIII In-classLab2:useMatlabtoreadIRIclimatedata Oceangeneralcirculation&climate Test2 Climatesensitivity&feedbackI Climatesensitivity&climatefeedbackII Noclass(SpringBreak) Noclass(SpringBreak) Noclass(SpringBreak) Climatesensitivity&climatefeedbackIII In-classLab3:Conductbasicanalysisofclimatedata NaturalclimatechangeI NaturalclimatechangeII Anthropogenicclimatechange Test3 Preparationforpresentation StudentpresentationsI StudentpresentationsII StudentpresentationsIII Notes 10points 10points 10points Undergrad: 30pts; grad:40pts