Semester:
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- Professor: Marianna Linz
- Term: Fall
- Day: T, Th
- Time: 1:30-2:45PM
- School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Course ID: 128224
- Subject Area: Earth and Planetary Sciences
This course introduces students to the fluid Earth, emphasizing Earth's weather and climate, the carbon cycle, and global environmental change. The physical concepts necessary for understanding the structure, motion and energy balance of the atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere are covered first, and then these concepts are applied in exploring major earth processes. Examples from Earth's past history, on-going changes in the climate, and implications for the future are highlighted.
Notes: Course includes lectures twice a week, a one hour section, and lab. This course fulfills the EPS sub-discipline requirement of Atmosphere(s) and Oceans.