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625-332 Climate: Mechanisms & Variability | |
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Credit Points | 25 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof I H Simmonds |
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) and 36 hours of practical work (three hours per week) |
Subject Description | Topics include the 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 the role of ice-sheets, Antarctic mass balance and 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 totalling 5000 words; a 3-hour written examination. |
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