UChicago - Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change
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Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change at Coursera Overview
Duration | 39 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
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Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change at Coursera Course details
- This class describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans? impact on Earth?s climate. Intended for an audience without much scientific background but a healthy sense of curiosity, the class brings together insights and perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, and even some economics?all based on a foundation of simple mathematics (algebra).
Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change at Coursera Curriculum
Overview
Video Introduction
Resources
Debriefing Quizzes
Explainer Assignments
A Supplemental Class to This One
Heat, Light, and Energy
Using Units
Units of Energy
Heat
Units of Light
Light
Blackbody Radiation
Optional Problems: How Much Coal to Run a Light Bulb
Optional Problems: Comparing Energy Prices
First Climate Model
Naked Planet Climate Model
The Greenhouse Effect
Optional Layer Model Problem: How Hot is the Moon?
Optional Layer Model Problem 2: A Stronger Greenhouse Effect
Optional Layer Model Problem 3: Nuclear Winter
Quiz 1
Greenhouse Gases and the Atmosphere
Greenhouse Gas Physics
The Band Saturation Effect
Model Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
The Structure of the Atmosphere
Atmospheric Temperature Structure
Pressure in a Standing Fluid
Water Vapor and Latent Heat
Moist Convection
Model the Lapse Rate and Greenhouse Effect
Weather and Climate
Heat Transport
Coriolis Acceleration
Geostrophic Motion
The Turbulent Cascade
Quiz 2
Feedbacks
Positive and Negative Feedback
Ice Albedo Feedback
Water Vapor Feedback
Clouds
Aerosols
Climate Sensitivity
Model Sunlight, Albedo, and Climate
Extract the Water Vapor Feedback from Climate Model Results
Model Clouds 1: IR
Model Clouds 2: Full-spectrum
Model Aerosols and Climate
Calculate the Climate Sensitivity
Quiz 3
The Carbon Cycle
The Weathering CO? Thermostat
The Goldilocks Planets
The Oceans in the Carbon Cycle
The Land Biosphere in the Carbon Cycle
The Battery of the Biosphere
Oxidation and Reduction of Carbon
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
Model the Global Carbon Cycle
Model Ocean/Land CO? Uptake with ISAM
Model Intended vs. Greenhouse Yields
Quiz 4
The Perturbed Carbon Cycle
Forecasting Future Emissions
Where Our Carbon Is Going
Ocean Buffer Chemistry
The Perturbed Carbon Cycle
Methane as a Greenhouse Gas
The Long CO? Tail
Why the CO? Tail Matters
Model Hubbert's Peak
Model Kaya Identity
Model Methane and Slugulator
Model the Long Tail
Quiz 5
Looking for a Human Impact on Climate
Land Surface Temperature Records
Sea Surface Temperature Records
Satellite Temperature Records
The Smoking Gun: Warming Since the 1970s
Paleoclimate and Proxy Measurements
Tree Rings
Borehole Temperatures
Oxygen Isotopes
Solar Intensity and the Hockey Stick
Glacial - Interglacial Cycles
Make Maps of Climate Models Warming
Look for the Smoking Gun
Browse the Global Glacier Length Data
Model Borehole Temperatures
Analyze Recent Solar Intensity Changes
Quiz 6
Potential Impacts
Global Weirding
Monsoons
Vegetation
Impacts of Sea Level
Antarctic Ice Sheet
Greenland Ice Sheet
Paleo Sea Level Changes
Water Vapor and Storminess
Hurricanes
Extreme Weather
Ecosystem Impacts
Human Impacts
Water Stress in Climate Model Results
Model Permafrost
Model Changes in Sea Level
Play with an Ice Sheet Model, ISM
Short vs Long Term Sea Level Change
Find the Increase in Low-Level Humidity in Models
Extract AR5 Model Lapse Rates
Model Hurricanes
Quiz 7
Mitigation
Stabilization Scenarios
Temperature Targets
Slug Theory
Geoengineering: CO? Capture and Sequestration
Geoengineering: Solar Radiation Management
Economics of Climate Change
Mitigation: Short-Term
Mitigation: Long-Term
Survey on Attitudes toward MOOC technology
Model Stabilization Scenarios
Model Temperature Targets
How well does Slugulator do at Slug Theory?
Model CO2 Sequestration
Model SRM Geoengineering
How Many Wedges?
How Much Carbon-Free Energy by 2100?
Quiz 8
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