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October 15, 2022
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This course includes:
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Description
This course introduces students to climate studies, including beginnings of the solar system,
, time scales, and climate in human history. It is offered to both undergraduate and graduate students with different requirements.
Course Curriculum
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- The origin of the earth, atmosphere and life Unlimited
- The early geochemical evolution of the earth and the origin of life Unlimited
- The co-evolution of life, ocean-atmospheric chemistry, and sedimentary rocks Unlimited
- The Faint Young Sun Paradox, the geochemical C cycle and climate on geologic time scales Unlimited
- Long-term climate cycles and the proterozoic glaciations Unlimited
- Climate on geologic time scales and the CO2-climate connection Unlimited
- Pleistocene ice age cycles 0-2.65 ma Unlimited
- Ice sheet paleoclimatology Unlimited
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- Randomness and chaos in the climate system Unlimited
- Climate physics and chemistry Unlimited
- Radiative transfer Unlimited
- Moist convection Unlimited
- Flux of water Unlimited
- Heat transport Unlimited
- What controls the temperature gradient in middle and high latitudes? Unlimited
- Atmospheric chemistry I: ozone, chlorofluorocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and dimethyl sulfide Unlimited
- Atmospheric chemistry II: methane Unlimited
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