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This class examines tools, data, and ideas related to past climate changes as seen in marine, ice core, and continental records.
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The most recent climate changes (mainly the past 500,000 years, ranging up to about 2 million years ago) will be emphasized. Quantitative tools for the examination of paleoceanographic data will be introduced (statistics, factor analysis, time series analysis, simple climatology).
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- Major paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic events of the past 2 million years Unlimited
- Oxygen isotope paleoclimatology Unlimited
- Oxygen isotope paleothermometry Unlimited
- Paleo-ecological temperature estimates Unlimited
- Fundamentals of factor analysis: satellite image Unlimited
- Sea-level and climate change Unlimited
- Glacial/interglacial ‘oscillations Unlimited
- Ice core evidence for climate change Unlimited
- Ice core evidence for climate change (cont.) Unlimited
- Deep-ocean Unlimited
- Atmospheric CO2, ocean chemistry Unlimited
- Continental evidence for glacial climate change Unlimited
- Lifestyles of the small and calcareous Unlimited
- Coral evidence for temperature, salinity, and nutrient changes Unlimited
- Introduction to cenozoic palenoceanography Unlimited
- Newer tracers Unlimited
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