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Course

ENV-410: Science of climate change

Lectures in this course (45)

Climate System: Introduction and Components

Covers the basics of the climate system, climate change, and the Earth's energy balance.

Greenhouse Effect, Clouds, Radiative Forcing

Explores the greenhouse effect, clouds, and radiative forcing, discussing the impact of human activities on Earth's energy balance and climate.

Climate Variability: Cities and Solutions

Discusses the impact of climate variability on cities, exploring solutions and challenges in the context of global warming trends.

Greenhouse Effect: Aerosols and Clouds

Explores the greenhouse effect, aerosols, and clouds' role in climate change and their impact on Earth's energy balance.

Climate Change: Paris Agreement

Covers climate negotiations, the Paris Agreement, carbon budget, emission scenarios, tipping points, and the urgency of reducing emissions.

Climate Sensitivity and Feedback Factors

Explores climate sensitivity, feedback factors, and ECS estimation using emergent constraints and paleoclimate records.

Climate Emergency: Introduction to Climate System

Introduces the Earth's climate system, emphasizing the urgency of addressing the climate emergency and the impact of climate change on the planet.

Carbon Budget Metrics

Discusses COP27 outcomes, carbon budgets, emission metrics, and the importance of accurate measurements for achieving climate goals.

Global Warming: COP27 Recap

Recaps COP27 outcomes, discusses carbon budget limits, and explains metrics like GWP and GTP for emission comparison.

Paleoclimate: Climate Change Patterns

Explores paleoclimate through ice cores, isotopes, and temperature reconstructions, highlighting the influence of Earth's orbit and greenhouse gases on climate patterns.

Earth's Energy Balance: Radiation Basics

Explores Earth's energy balance, including solar radiation interaction with the atmosphere and surface, blackbody radiation, and atmospheric processes.

Earth's Climate System: Components and Interactions

Covers the Earth's climate system components, interactions, and energy balance, including the impact of anthropogenic forcings and the role of the biosphere.

Extreme Events and Climate Change

Explores extreme events, climate change impact, observed temperature changes, and Arctic and Antarctic amplification.

Climate Change Basics

Delves into the basics of climate change, covering greenhouse effect, feedback mechanisms, extreme events, and mitigation strategies.

Climate Extremes: Understanding Extreme Events

Explores extreme events in climate change, emission metrics, and predicting future climate extremes.

Climate Extremes: Metrics and Implications

Explores climate extremes, including fitting extreme value distributions, impact of climate change, and observed changes in temperature extremes.

Paris Agreement: Emissions Gap

Explores the Paris Agreement, Emissions Gap, COP 27, UNFCCC, IPCC, WMO reports, Swiss NDC, Glasgow COP26, and IPCC's AR6 findings.

Climate Change: Paris Agreement & COP 27

Explores the Paris Agreement, emission gaps, IPCC assessments, and COP 27 targets to combat climate change.

Greenhouse Effect: Understanding Climate Sensitivity

Explores the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, climate sensitivity, and the Earth's energy balance.

Climate Change Mitigation

Explores polar and alpine climate change, mitigation strategies, and climate engineering, covering topics like greenhouse effect, Paris Agreement, IPCC reports, and extreme events.