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課程名稱

氣候變遷科學
Global Climate Change

開課學期

104-2

授課對象

學程地球系統科學學程

授課教師

陳維婷

課號

AtmSci7072

課程識別碼

229 M8300

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

星期五6,7(13:20~15:10)

上課地點

大氣A104

備註

需先修過氣候學
限學士班四年級以上
總人數上限：15人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1042AtmSci7072_

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課程概述

• This course provides a solid foundation in climate change science, including lectures on the physical basis of anthropogenic climate change, natural climate variations, and global climate models.
• The students need to work on projects to obtain a hands-on experience on building toy models and analyzing the observational data sets and global model outputs.
• The student will read and present selected sections of the 2013 IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of Working Group I Physical Basis, as well as the related literatures, to understand the current status of climate change research.

Prerequisite on student levels:
• 4th-year undergrade or above in Atmospheric Sciences major, or upon the approval from the instructor.
• The students need to have basic capabilities to analyze and/or visualize numerical data using scientific software/programming language, such as FORTRAN, GrADS, IDL, Matlab, or NCL.
• They also need to have basic understandings to the earth system sciences, atmospheric thermodynamics and radiation, statistics, and climatology.

課程目標

• To help the students understand the basic theory and recent advances in climate change research
• To familiarize the students with the tools and methodologies for analyzing historical observation and model simulation data sets.

課程要求

• Four Projects and Term Papers (40%):
Each student will build simple numerical models and reproduce the selected figures/tables based on observations and CESM model outputs.
The term papers (5-pages) include the slides of the oral presentation, supplementary results and programming code. (3/25, 4/22, 5/20, 6/24)
• Four Oral Presentations (28%):
Each student will summarize the results of the projects (simple model/data analyses). 7 minutes each, including discussion. (3/18, 4/15, 5/13, 6/17)
• Two IPCC Reading Assignments (20%):
Each student will read and summarize orally in class a section in the assigned AR5 Chapters, introduce at least 2 figures/tables, and explain why he/she find the figures/tables interesting, important or controversial. 7 minutes each, including discussion. (5/6, 6/3)
• Class Participation (12%)
The grade will be based on the quality of the presentations, the level of understanding to the assigned reading, the degree of execution of coding/data analyses, and the involvement of class discussion.

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

指定閱讀

Major:
• IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of Working Group I: Physical Basis http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
• David Archer, 2012: Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J.
• Robert Henson, 2008: A Rough Guide to Climate Change, Penguin, London
Supplementary:
• Dennis L. Hartmann, 1994: Global Physical Climatology, Acad. Press.
• David Neelin, 2010: Climate Change and Climate Modeling, Cambridge
• Raymond Pierrehumbert, 2011: Principles of Planetary Climate, Cambridge

參考書目

IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of Working Group I: Physical Basis http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
Dennis L. Hartmann, 1994: Global Physical Climatology, Acad. Press.
David Neelin, 2010: Climate Change and Climate Modeling, Cambridge
Raymond Pierrehumbert, 2011: Principles of Planetary Climate, Cambridge

評量方式
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No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Two IPCC Reading Assignments	20%	Each student will read and summarize orally in class a section in the assigned AR5 Chapters, introduce at least 2 figures/tables, and explain why he/she find the figures/tables interesting, important or controversial. 7 minutes each, including discussion.
2.	Four Projects and Term Papers	40%	Each student will build simple numerical models and reproduce the selected figures/tables based on observations and CESM model outputs. The term papers (5-pages) include the slides of the oral presentation, supplementary results and programming code.
3.	Four Oral Presentations	28%	Each student will summarize the results of the projects (simple model/data analyses). 7 minutes each, including discussion.
4.	Class participation	12%	Interactions and discussions with instructor and fellow students

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	2/26	Overview of Global Climate Change [HW: Review Hartmann Ch2, 9 ,12]
第2週	3/04	Global Energy Balance, Climate Forcing and Feedback: Basics [HW: Model 1.1 1.2]
第3週	3/11	Global Energy Balance, Climate Forcing and Feedback: Advanced, Model 1.1, 1.2 [HW: Model 1.3]
第4週	3/18	Global Energy Balance, Climate Forcing and Feedback: Presentation Model 1 [HW: Review carbon cycles]
第5週	3/25	The Carbon Cycle: Review (1st Term Paper Due) [HW: Model 2.1] Reference: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CarbonCycle/page1.php?src=fb https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwZQ_4s7AUgSVFBNNURGRTZWWVk
第6週	4/01	溫書假
第7週	4/08	The Carbon Cycle: Advanced, Model 2.2 [HW: Model 2.2]
第8週	4/15	The Carbon Cycle: Presentation Model 2 [HW: Review Climatology]
第9週	4/22	Past and Present Climate Change: Review (2nd Term Paper Due) [HW: Analysis 1.1]
第10週	4/29	Past and Present Climate Change: Advanced (Guest Lecture: Prof. S.-H. Su) [HW: read IPCC Ch1-4]
第11週	5/06	Past and Present Climate Change: Presentation IPCC 1 [HW: Carry out Analysis 1]
第12週	5/13	Past and Present Climate Change: Presentation Analysis 1
第13週	5/20	Future Climate Change: Review (3rd Term Paper Due) [HW: Read IPCC Ch9-11]
第14週	5/27	Future Climate Change: Advanced [HW: read IPCC Ch9-11]
第15週	6/03	Future Climate Change: Presentation IPCC 2 [HW: Carry out Analysis 2]
第16週	6/10	(端午節)
第17週	6/17	Future Climate Change: Presentation Analysis 2
第18週	6/24	(4th Term Paper Due)