571 Advanced Physical Climatology

Outline for Autumn 2017: Tentative

1. Radiative-Convective Equilibrium

Hot Topic: Climate Sensitivity: Kernels and PRP method

2. Surface Processes

Hot Topic: Life on Land and Climate, Carbon and Moisture

3. General Circulation of the Atmosphere – and climate

Hot Topic: Hadley Expansion and Jet Shifts

4. General Circulation of Ocean - and its role in climate change

Hot Topic: The Hiatus, forcing, sensitivity and heat uptake.

5. Natural Modes of Variability – and their response to climate

Hot Topic: Storms, Droughts, Floods and Warming

6. More Hot topics in Climate Change Research

a.) Low Cloud Feedback

b.) The indirect effect of aerosols

c.) The forcing vs feedback paradigm, can it survive?

d.) The great debates – IRIS

e.) Carbon cycle feedbacks