Kim
Cobb
kcobb@eas.gatech.edu
ES&T
3240,
404-894-3895
Course Objectives:
This
seminar course will review some of the seminal scientific findings
surrounding anthropogenic climate changes, addressing both its causes
and effects. Our reading list is pulled from "The Warming Papers" (Eds. D. Archer and R. Pierrehumbert, Wiley, 2011).
Schedule of Papers:
Section I: Climate Physics (see the great overview here)
January 7 Introduction
Janurary 16 Arrhenius, S. "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground ", Philosophical Magazine of Science, vol 41(251): 237-276 1896.
January 23 Sellers, W.D, "A Global Climatic Model Based on the Energy Balance of the Earth-Atmosphere System", 1969.
January 30 Manabe,
S., and Wetherald, R.T., "The Effects of Doubling the
CO2 Concentration on the Climate of a General Circulation Model",
1975.
February 6 Hansen, J. et al., "Climate Sensitivity: Analysis of Feedback Mechanisms", 1984.
February
13 Mitchell, J.F.B. et al., "Climate Response to
Increasing Levels of Greenhouse Gases and Sulphate Aerosols", 1995.
February 20 Hansen et al., "Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications", 2005.
February 27 Fu, Q. et al, "Contribution of
Stratospheric Cooling to Satellite-Inferred Troposphoric Temperature
Trends", 2004.
March 6 Mann, M.E. et al., "Northern Hemisphere
Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and
Limitations", 1999.
March 13 Zwally, H.J. et al., "Surface Melt-Induced Acceleration of Greenland Ice-Sheet Flow", 2002.
March 27 Charney, J.G. et al., "Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment", 1979.
Section II: The Carbon Cycle (see the great overview here)
April 3 Bolin, B. and Eriksson, E., "Distribution
of Matter in the Sea and Atmosphere: Changes in the Carbon Dioxide
Content of the Atmosphere and Sea due to Fossil Fuel Combustion", 1958.
April 10 Keeling, C.D. "Is Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuel Changing Man's Environment?", 1970.
April
17 Cox, P.M. et al., "Acceleration of Global Warming
Due to Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks in a Coupled Climate Model", 2000.
April 23 Kennett, J.P and Stott, L.D., "Abrupt
Deep-Sea Warming, Palaeoceanographic Changes and Benthic Extinctions at
the End of the Palaeocene", 1991.
April 30 Barnola, J.M. et al., "Vostok Ice Core Provides 160,000-Year Record of Atmospheric CO2", 1987.
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