Climate Change Science
This course will provide the scientific basis for understanding climate change. The focus will be on the twentieth century and understanding the various natural and anthropogenic factors and feedback processes that are contributing to the observed climate changes including extreme events.
Climate System Seminar (I), (II)
A seminar course designed to treat emerging or topical subjects in Climate System – the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. It Involves lectures, reading from the literature,and student participation in discussion. Topics vary from year to year.
Predictability in the Climate System
Predictability is considered in the context of the seamless weather-climate prediction problem and there can be predictive power on all time scales. This lecture provides physical basis on prediction of weather and climate phenomena including MJO, BSISO, NAO, ENSO, PDO, AMO, andetc.
Special Topic (I) in Climate System
Special course offerings by staff and visiting scientists on important topics in climate system sciences.
Special Topic (II) in Climate System
Special course offerings by staff and visiting scientists on important topics in climate system sciences.
Weather and Climate Risk
Introduction to weather and climate extreme events such as storms, heatwaves and drought events, how they will likely change in a warmer world. Also impact models are introduced such as catastrophe models.
Advanced Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
The equations of motions for rotating stratified flow and their application to the atmospheric and oceanic dynamics; Ekman layer dynamics, potential vorticity dynamics, the quasigeostrophic approximation, theories of the wind-driven oceanic circulation, theories of the atmospheric Hadley circulation, geostrophic adjustment, and baroclinic instability.
Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate
The class discusses ocean-atmospherein teraction dynamics that cause climate to vary in space and time, and form the physical basis for predicting year-to-year climate variability and projecting future climate change in the face of global warming.
Applied Mathematics for Climate Study
Review of exact methods for ordinary differential equations. Expansions about regular and irregular singular points. Introduction to asymptotic expansions. Approximate methods for non linear differential equations. Regular and singular perturbation theory. Additional topics depending upon the interests of the instructor. WKB, method of multiple scales, boundary layer theory.
Advanced Paleoclimate
Introduction to geological archives; the tools for paleoclimate reconstruction and a sampling of important issues from the geological record, including the development of “greenhouse” and “icehouse” worlds, the origin and evaluation of glacial cycles, and the origin of“millennial scale” climate variability.
Monsoon Meteorology
This course reviews the physical principles of monsoon climate variation in various time scales ranging from intra seasonal to tectonic time scales. Key dynamic and thermodynamic processes for monsoon meteorology will be discussed.
Statistical Methods for Climate Science
Students will learn about statistical methods for climate data sets. Students will learn univariate methods such as significance tests, null hypothesis and extreme value analysis, and multivariate methdods such as EOF analysis, Dynamical Mode Decomposition, and spatial extremes. Students will learn using R.
Climate Economics
The course will cover the economics of climate change by discussing the various interdisciplinary aspects of climate change impacts, socio-economic climate damages, and the social cost of carbon. All topics will be practically explored by building an Integrated Assessment Model.
Climate Crisis and Carbon Neutrality
This course involves advancing our understanding of the climate crisis of each component consisting of the climate system such as the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere. And the course promotes taking action on carbon neutrality and studying the impacts of carbon neutrality's realization on the climate crisis.