This class describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans’ impact on Earth’s climate. Intended for an audience without much scientific background but a healthy sense of curiosity, the class brings together insights and perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, and even some economics—all based on a foundation of simple mathematics (algebra).
Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change
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The University of Chicago
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Semana
1Overview
What you will find in this class.
1 vídeo (total de (Total 4 mín.) min), 4 leituras
1 vídeos
4 leituras
Resources10min
Debriefing Quizzes10min
Explainer Assignments10min
A Supplemental Class to This One10min
Semana
2Heat, Light, and Energy
A primer on how to use units to describe numbers when describing temperature, energy, and light. Even if you don't plan on doing calculations yourself, understanding how units work will help to follow the rest of the lectures in the class. If you are interested in practicing your analysis skills, using units to guide calculations, there are some exercises in the Part II of this class.
6 vídeos (total de (Total 28 mín.) min), 3 testes
6 videos
Using Units3min
Units of Energy5min
Heat4min
Units of Light3min
Light5min
Blackbody Radiation6min
2 exercícios práticos
Optional Problems: How Much Coal to Run a Light Bulb4min
Optional Problems: Comparing Energy Prices16min
Semana
3First Climate Model
The balance of energy flow, as incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared, allow us to create our first simple climate model, including a simple greenhouse effect. There are two extended exercises in Part II of this class, one an analytical (algebraic) model of the equilibrium temperature of a planet, the other a numerical model of how that temperature might evolve through time.
2 vídeos (total de (Total 18 mín.) min), 4 testes
4 exercícios práticos
Optional Layer Model Problem: How Hot is the Moon?4min
Optional Layer Model Problem 2: A Stronger Greenhouse Effect22min
Optional Layer Model Problem 3: Nuclear Winter2min
Quiz 122min
Semana
4Greenhouse Gases and the Atmosphere
The Layer Model above assumes that the pane of glass representing the atmosphere absorbs all of the infrared radiation that hits it and that it radiates at all infrared wavelengths. In other words, the layer model atmosphere is an infrared blackbody, but transparent in the visible. In reality, greenhouse gases are not "black" at all; they are very choosy about which frequencies of light they absorb and emit. This selective absorption of infrared light by greenhouse gases leads to the band saturation effect, which makes rare, trace gases like methane disproportionally powerful relative to higher-concentration gases like CO₂.
2 vídeos (total de (Total 20 mín.) min), 1 teste
1 exercício prático
Model Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere12min
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por SL•Oct 6th 2016
A great introductory course into Global Warming as well as modelling which gives you a better insight into what is actually happening with our planet. Started another course and it all fits in.
por JB•May 19th 2016
Excellent course. My understanding of the world and how we are affected by climate has grown tenfold if not more. I recommend this to anyone who has an interest in living on this planet.
Instrutores
David Archer
ProfessorGeophysical Sciences
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