Course Description
This course is also open to Master's and PhD students of the Graduate School of Climate Sciences.
Anthropogenic climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human societies. Reducing human-caused greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the targets of the legally binding Paris Agreement is essential for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
This lecture covers the fundamentals of the climate system, including the atmospheric radiation balance, carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, oceanic and atmospheric circulation, multiple climate equilibria, climate variations over the past million years. It also introduces the applications of stable isotopes and radionuclides to trace environmental processes.
