ESS 587

Fundamentals of Climate Change

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Description

Examines Earth's climate system; distribution of temperature, precipitation, wind ice, salinity, and ocean currents; fundamental processes determining Earth's climate; energy and constituent transport mechanisms; climate sensitivity; natural climate variability on interannual to decadal time scales; global climate models; predicting future climate.

CEC Data

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