Global Warming Science

• Introduction and history of the Earth's climate
• Climate change through geological time
• Some concepts of climate science
• Causes of recent climate change
• Climate change and climate models
• A simple model of the global climate
• Seasonal and other variability
• The Snowball Earth
• History of global temperature and atmospheric composition
• Radiative equilibrium
• Two-layer radiative-convective model
• Phenomenology of the atmospheric circulation
• Tropical circulations
• Types of Clouds
• Importance of the ocean
• History of numerical weather forecast models
• Evaluation of climate models
• Introduction to the radiative-convective model
• Radiative-convective model tutorial