Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Corequisites: graduate atmospheric, oceanic, hydrological, or climate science courses. Lectures, readings, and projects on current issues in projections of future anthropogenic climate change; design and use of resources from Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects (CMIPs), topics from large multiscientist climate assessments, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Issues in modeling current climate, including natural climate variability, paleoclimate, and global change under standardized scenarios for future anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols. May be repeated for credit. S/U (for majors with consent of instructor after successful completion of written and oral comprehensive examination and for nonmajors at discretion of major department) or letter grading.

Units: 4.0