Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	İklim Dinamiği
	English	Climate Dynamics
Course Code	MTO 428E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	8	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Yurdanur Ünal Yurdanur Ünal
Course Objectives		Basic understanding of earth’s climate system Practice problem-solving skills and application of scientific concepts. Discussion of current climate issues (Global Warming, NAO,ENSO, drought, etc.)
Course Description		Climate system: atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, biosphere and geosphere. Radiation balance and greenhouse effect. Climate in the past: evidence of climatic change, post-glacial changes. Feedback mechanisms in climate: the ice-albedo feedback, the water vapor feedback, cloud feedbacks, combining feedback effects. Possible causes of climatic change: external causes -changes in the solar activity, Milankovitch variations, and internal causes volcanic eruptions, tropospheric aerosols. Surface changes-. Energy balance models: box models- another form of energy balance models. Radiative-convective models. Radiative forcing of climate: greenhouse gases, direct and indirect effects of greenhouse gasses, past and present changes in radiative forcing. Validation of climate models.
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Textbook		Hartmann, Global Physical Climatology Trenberth (ed.), Climate System Modeling Peixoto & Oort, Physics of Climate
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