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

Students will learn global physical climatology to acquire the basic skill and knowledge for the climate study in terms of climate formation and its variations. Through attending lectures and homework, students may obtain knowledge that is needed to tackle global issues on climate change and sustainability.

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

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.

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Kamae Yoichi

Other information

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.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university