Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	İklim Değişimi
	English	Climate Change
Course Code	MTO 479E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	7	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Yurdanur Ünal
Course Objectives		Climate change is a global problem which affects natural and socioeconomic systems. During this class, students will be introduced to the topics how climate system works, natural and antropogenic causes of climate change and work on basic climate change scenarios.
Course Description		Introduction: Climate change and variability-past, present and future, Energy flows, hydrological cycle, carbon, sulphur and nitrogen cycles, biogeochemical cycles, natural and antropoenic climate cahnge, emission sources and inventories of GHGs, observed changes in climate system, future projections and simple climate models.
Course Outcomes
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities		Computer lab
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Textbook		Harvey, D, (2000), Climate and global environmental change, Prentice Hall, 240s
Other References		Dow K. ve T. E. Downing, (2006), The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge, University of California Press, 112s. Jennings G.(1993), Aerosol effects on climate University of Arizona Press, 304s. Hardy J. T., (2003), Climate change : causes, effects, and solutions, J. Wiley, New York. Schulze E-D, et al. (2001), Global biogeochemical cycles in the climate system, Academic Press, San Diego, 350s. IPCC, IV Assesment Report (2007) http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm Related Papers

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