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625-332 Climate: Mechanisms & Variability | |
Credit Points | 25 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Dr R C Lile |
Prerequisites | Earth Sciences 625-227, 625-228; Mathematics 620-141, 620-142, 620-130 (1998 handbook) or equivalent. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | 36 lectures (three per week), 36 hours practical (three hours per week) |
Subject Description | Global climate as a holistic system. Convection, radiation, and cloud processes. Remote sensing of the climate system. Climate variability on various time scales, climate shifts and global warming. El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the historic period and relationships with longer time-scale variability. Role of ice-sheets, Antarctic mass balance, large-scale water mass formation. On completion of this subject, students should have an understanding of the workings and connectedness of the climate system as a whole, and of climate variability. |
Assessment | Practical work, assignments and a research report totalling up to 7000 words. |
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