Course Overview

The Earth's climate system represents complex interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and land. This class aims to foster ability to understand general basis on elements of climate system, their interactions, and their variability including El Nino Southern Oscillation and global warming. This course will also introduce 1) conceptual difference between weather forecast and climate projection, and 2) physical mechanisms responsible for anomalous weather and climate events (heavy rainfall, drought, heat wave, etc) occurred in recent years.

Learning Achievement

The Earth's climate system represents complex interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and land. This class aims to foster ability to understand general basis on elements of climate system, their interactions, and their variability including El Nino Southern Oscillation and global warming. This course will also introduce 1) conceptual difference between weather forecast and climate projection, and 2) physical mechanisms responsible for anomalous weather and climate events (heavy rainfall, drought, heat wave, etc) occurred in recent years.

Competence

「1. 理解力、解析力」「2. 課題対応力」に関連する

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Home work and report submission (100%)

Course schedule

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Kamae Yoichi

Other information

Identical to 01AD319 and 0AND403.
Lecture is conducted in English. Students need to prepare for classes in advance by studying the meaning of basic terminology on meteorology, for example latent heat, infrared radiation, Hadley circulation, Coriolis force etc if they don't have such basic knowledge.

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