The series will consist
of 8 one-hour lectures followed by 1/2 hour discussions:
Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. at the UAF Geophysical Institute’s Elvey
Auditorium
First lecture 9 September 2004 & Final lecture 5 October 2004
Summary
The lecture series will examine the history of earth’s climate as a complex system of physical and biological processes. Recent developments, documented by two centuries of instrumental records, indicate a high probability of man-made effects. Model-based scenarios will be used to illustrate both the importance and the fundamental difficulty of predicting future climates.
Professor Kutzbach
has been a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin Madison since 1966 and for the past 22 years has been the Director of the University’s Center for Climate Research. He has served on numerous national and international committees and has received many professional awards, including the Milankovic Medal of the European Geophysical Society, an Honorary Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Fellowships from the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.
This course can be taken for 1-3 credits as ATM 693 Polar Climatology CRN: 78400 . For details on the course please contact Dr. Untersteiner (n-u@runbox.com).
DATE |
TITLE |
Lecture 1 Th Sept 9 |
Climate observations
and climate modeling: an overview |
Lecture 2 Tu Sept 14 |
Climate models
and present-day climate |
Lecture 3 Th Sept 16 |
Climate and plate
tectonic processes |
Lecture 4 Tu Sept 21 |
Climate and mountain/plateau
uplift processes |
Lecture 5 Th Sept 25 |
Climate and orbital
forcing processes, and the most recent glacial/interglacial |
Lecture 6 Tu Sept 28 |
Climate variability
at millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales |
Lecture 7 Th Sept 30 |
Climate of the
past 100 years |
Lecture 8 Tu Oct 5 |
Climates of the future |