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SIO201:
Geological record of climate change
Spring 2008
Instructor:
Christopher Charles
305 Vaughan Hall, Scripps Inst. Of Oceanography, 534-5911, ccharles @
ucsd.edu
Textbook (required):
The Glacial World According to Wally (W.S.
Broecker)
Course grade:
Midterm problems (25%); Class Project (50%); Final (25%)
Approximate sequence of
lectures:
(Powerpoint files of these lectures will be available on the website
for a limited time after each has been delivered. Page numbers refer to
the corresponding material in the textbook.)
M
Mar 31 Overview, simple models of the
climate system
W April 2 Archives of the climate system
M April 7 Hockey stick of the last
millennium (Anais)
W April 9 Characteristics
of the last ice age Reading:
Broecker, "Indicators" chapter
M April 14 Sensitivity of the climate
system—the ice age experiment
W April 16 Forced response (Milankovich
theory) Reading Broecker, "Clocks" chapter
M April 21 Milankovitch
puzzles (student)
W April 23
“Unforced” variability (millennial scale)
M April 28 Heinrich events,
abrupt changes in deep ocean circulation (student)
W April 30 Decadal-interannual
variability
M May 5 ENSO history
W May 7 Monsoon through the ages
M May 12 Greenhouse to icehouse
W May 14 Greenhouse to icehouse (student)
M May 19 Extreme warmth
W May 21 Extreme variability
M May 26 Climate/biosphere
W May 28 Climate/biosphere (student)
M Jun 2 Student presentations
W Jun4 Student presentations
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