GS 540: Climate Geology

Syllabus​

Introduction to climatic geology, atmosphere, lithosphere and ocean dynamics, paleoclimate, geobiology. Antarctica and study of ice sheets global warming, atmospheric aerosols and air pollution, framework of climate change, Milankovitch cycles and solar activity, climate modelling.

Texts/References

  • Ahrens C.D., Meteorology Today, An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment, 7th edn. Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2003
  • Oliver J.E. & Hidore, J.J. Climatology, An Atmospheric Science, 2nd edn. Prentice Hall, 2002
  • Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F. and Crane, R.G., The Earth System, 2nd edn. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004
  • Oerlemans, J., Glaciers and climate change. A.A Balkema , 2001