GEG 4129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Permafrost, Taylor Series, Evapotranspiration

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEG 4129
• Professor: conrad

Document Summary

Section 1 - the climate system and climate variability: climate dynamics: a review (including geg 2304, the ocean, air-sea interactions, teleconnections, the cryosphere, climate models. Section 2 paleoclimatology: long-term climate change: paleoclimatology methods, climate evolution on long timescales, ice ages, the ice age, the holocene, the mwp & lia. Section 3 climate of the 20th century, global warming & impacts, the future: historical climate impacts on societies, climate of the 20th century, global warming, climate impacts, attribution & extremes, future climates. Example: tree line and climate: the net radiation is balanced by the sensible, latent and froybd heat fluxes, gound map be important locally (eg permafrost, thawing), but globally is not that important, and is balanced over year. In ocean currents are important (more on this later) the ocean has a general circulation, the movement of air polewards by the oceans has a structure to it.