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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, 620-143 or equivalent.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

36 lectures (three per week), 36 hours practical (three hours per week)

Subject Description

Topics include 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; and 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 and reports totally 5000 words, and a 3-hour written examination.

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