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12.842 Climate Science

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(Subject meets with 12.301)
Prereq: Chemistry (GIR), 18.03, or permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: MW1.30-3 (54-517)

Introduction to climate studies, including beginnings of the solar system, time scales, and climate in human history; methods for detecting climate change, including proxies, ice cores, instrumental records, and time series analysis; physical and chemical processes in climate, including primordial atmosphere, ozone chemistry, carbon and oxygen cycles, and heat and water budgets; internal feedback mechanisms, including ice, aerosols, water vapor, clouds, and ocean circulation; climate forcing, including orbital variations, volcanism, plate tectonics, and solar variability; climate models and mechanisms of variability, including energy balance, coupled models, and global ocean and atmosphere models; and outstanding problems. Students taking the graduate version complete different assignments.
A. Fiore, E. Boyle
No textbook information available

12.982, 12.983 Current Research in Joint Program at WHOI

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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units arranged [P/D/F]
12.982: TBA.

Original investigations, laboratory work, or fieldwork in oceanography. 12.982 is letter-graded.
T. Gebbie
12.982: No textbook information available
12.983: No textbook information available

Total units: 12+

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