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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

EES 410: Global Climate Change Laboratory (1)

Prerequisites (Desirable): Credited or registered in EES 404

Learning Objectives:

In this course students will understand the procedure for extraction of data from different data formats and the availability and usage of data. They will analyze the global temperature record for the historical period and evaluate long-term trends and shorter-term fluctuations in these records. Further, they will analyze the evidence of the impact of climate forcing and mechanisms of natural variability on the global surface temperature. The ultimate goal is to help them understand the nature of the difficulties encountered in trying to extrapolate recent temperature trends into the future, and the need for models to make reasoned projections of temperature change.

Course Contents:

1. Understanding different data types e.g. observation, model (historical and projection).
2. Use of “netcdf” (binary) data format to fetch data for the desired local region.
3. Understand and analyze floods, droughts, volcanoes, and El Nino in the observation temperature data.
4. Plot Climate trends (temperature).
5. Plot Climate projections (temperature).
6. Understand Regional climate variations (e.g. temperature and precipitation anomaly distribution, monsoon circulation).
7. Description and interpretation of graphical information.
8. Explore the significance of global climate change patterns of a desired region.
9. Introduce students to the difficulties encountered in trying to extrapolate recent temperature trends into the future, and the need for models to make reasoned predictions of temperature change.

Suggested Readings :

1. Dessler, A., 2012, Introduction to Modern Climate Change, Cambridge University Press.
2. Storch, H., and Zwiers, F. W., 2002, Statistical Analysis in Climate Research, Cambridge University Press.

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