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Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change. This course describes the science of global warming and predicting human impacts on Earth’s climate. The course is designed for an audience without much prior scientific knowledge but with a healthy sense of curiosity. It brings together insights and perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, and even some economics—all based on simple mathematics (algebra). . An introduction to using units to describe numbers when describing temperature, energy, and light. Even if you don’t plan to do any calculations yourself, understanding how units work will help you follow the rest of the lectures in the course. If you’re interested in practicing your analytical skills and using units to guide calculations, you’ll find some exercises in Part II of this course. Balancing the flow of energy, that is, incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared, allows us to create our first simple climate model, including a simple greenhouse effect. In Part II of this course there are two advanced exercises, one an analytical (algebraic) model of the equilibrium temperature of a planet, the other a numerical model of how this temperature might evolve over time.
What you will learn
- Greenhouse gases and the atmosphere
- The structure of the atmosphere
- Weather and climate
- The carbon cycle
- In search of human influence on the climate
Specifying Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change
- Publisher : Coursera
- Teacher: David Archer
- Language: English
- Level: All levels
- Number of courses: 6
- Duration: 3 weeks, 12 hours per week
Contents of Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change
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