Overview
The ,听补苍诲听听course navigates the key systems that control our climate and how these systems interact. It explores the uncertainties associated with direct climate observation and future climate modelling.
Climate Science incorporates aspects of atmospheric science, oceanography, hydrology, biology, chemistry and physics. You鈥檒l critically interpret climate model projections and understand key aspects of the uncertainty associated with those projections.
Throughout the course, you鈥檒l build an appreciation of the range of鈥痮bservational data products that allow us to understand climate processes. You鈥檒l also develop an understanding of how climate models are built, executed and evaluated.
Term offering:听Term 2
Discipline:听Climate science
Course code:听CLIM3001 CLIM6001
Course breakdown
The theoretical understanding gained in lectures will be reinforced in practical sessions using a range of simplified statistical and climate models. Upon completion of the course, you鈥檒l have the knowledge and expertise to:
- Identify the limits of inference for a given observed climate data product. For example, spatial or temporal scales, sampling uncertainty and representativeness, or noise levels.
- Describe primary pathways of the carbon cycle, including photosynthesis, autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration and ocean solubility.
- Detail a range of key climate feedback mechanisms, as well as how these are likely to have affected the Earth鈥檚 paleoclimate.
- Identify common representations of atmospheric, oceanic and terrestrial processes within current state-of-the-art climate models.
- Identify aspects of future climate projections that deserve higher or lower confidence. You鈥檒l recognise the sources of uncertainty in such projections including downscaling techniques.
- Perform experiments using simple and complex models of the climate system and present results.
Conditions for enrolment
To be eligible for this third-year course, you must have completed at least one of the following courses:
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Career opportunities
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