Semester:
Spring
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.