#  EPS 231. Climate Dynamics 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2015 

 

 

 

**Instructor:** Eli Tziperman

**Description:** Climate and climate variability phenomena and dynamical mechanisms over multiple time scales, using dynamical system tools and a hierarchical modeling approach. Energy balance and greenhouse, El Niño, thermohaline circulation, abrupt climate change, millennial variability (DO and Heinrich events), glacial-interglacial cycles, warm past climates including the Pliocene (2-5 Myrs) and Eocene (50 Myrs). Needed background in stochastic and nonlinear dynamics will be covered.

**Credit:** Half course (Spring term)  
**Note:** Given in alternate years.  
**Prerequisite:** Background in geophysical fluid dynamics or permission of the instructor.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Graduate Courses ](/harvard-courses/graduate-climate-courses)