11:670:461 Climate Dynamics

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/climdyn2013/

Prerequisites: 11:670:324 DYNAMICS OF THE ATMOSPHERE and 11:670:431 PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

Cook, Kery H., 2013: Climate Dynamics, (Princeton University Press, Princeton), 200 pp.

IPCC:

AR4 Synthesis Report:  Core Writing Team, Pachauri, R.K, and Reisinger, A., Eds. (2007), Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  (IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland), 104 pp.  http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/contents.html   Summary for Policymakers

Working Group I Report:  Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H. L. Miller, Eds.  (2007), Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA), 996 pp.  http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/contents.html

Working Group II Report:   Parry, M. L., O. F. Canziani, J. P. Palutikof, P. J. van der Linden and C. E. Hanson, Eds. (2007), Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK), 976 pp.    http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/contents.html

Working Group III Report:  Metz, B., O. R. Davidson, P. R. Bosch, R. Dave, and L. A. Meyer, Eds. (2007), Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA), 851 pp.  http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/contents.html

AR 5 Working Group I Report

The Copenhagen Diagnosis

Other climate textbooks:

Goose, H., P.Y. Barriat, W. Lefebvre, M.F. Loutre, and V. Zunz, 2010:  Introduction to climate dynamics and climate modelling.  Online textbook available at http://www.climate.be/textbook

Pierrehumbert, Raymond T., 2010:  Principles of Planetary Climate, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK), 680 pp.

Neelin, J. David, 2011:  Climate change and climate modeling, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge), 282 pp.

Archer, David, and Raymond Pierrehumbert (Editors), 2011:  The Warming Papers, The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast, (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK), 419 pp.

Hartmann, Dennis L., 1994: Global Physical Climatology, (Academic Press, San Diego), 411 pp.

Peixoto, José P., and Abraham H. Oort, 1992: Physics of Climate, (American Institute of Physics, New York), 520 pp.

Trenberth, Kevin E., Ed., 1992: Climate System Modeling, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge), 788 pp.

For links to other important global warming source material, visit the US Global Change Research Program web page, http://www.globalchange.gov/

Learning Goals:

Upon completion of this class, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of anthropogenic impacts on atmospheric chemistry and climate and their potential environmental and societal consequences.
2. Exhibit critical thinking when confronting new information.
3. Communicate clearly orally and in writing, including by electronic means.
4. Apply the mathematical and physical foundations of meteorology and climatology to solve problems using analytical and computational methods.