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Fall 2023
Oct 30, 2024 |
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| EASC 308 - Climatology and the Future of Human Society |
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A deep exploration of Earth’s recent climate and the inevitable challenges climate change is now bringing to human societies. The class begins with the basic principles of the global climate system, including radiation laws, atmospheric dynamics, and the forcing factors resulting in climatic change. Following this introduction, focus turns to examining global climates, including the fragile climate of mountainous alpine and polar regions, where we can already see the effects of accelerated climate change and monsoonal regimes. With a clear understanding of Earth’s “typical” climate, we turn our attention to what controls the temporal and spatial variability of those climates, with a particular emphasis on inter-annual, decadal, and centennial climate variability using climatic data obtained by the students. Finally, we apply all these concepts to estimating the centennial-scale anthropogenic climate change and the implications this change is having on the effective functioning of human societies.
Prerequisites: Junior status and completion of at least one General Education Domain II-B course with lab or permission of instructor.
1.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Non-Matriculated, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Directed Study, Lecture Environ, Society,& Sustainblty Department Course Attributes: Undergraduate Level Course Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Non-Matriculated May not be assigned one of the following Student Attributes: DGCE Student May not be enrolled as the following Classifications: Sophomore - Day Division Freshman - Day Division Freshman - Continuing Educatn Sophomore - Continuing Educatn Prerequisites: PREREQ for EASC 308 General Requirements: ( May not be taken concurrently. ) or ( May not be taken concurrently. ) or ( Course Attribute: D12B May not be taken concurrently. and Course Attribute: LAB3 May not be taken concurrently. ) |
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