Explain major components and feedbacks of the climate system
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences · Ecology, Climate & Environmental Systems
CLIM-330Climate Systems & Human Adaptation
Connects atmospheric and oceanic processes, climate records, modeling, risk, adaptation, and cultural responses to environmental change.
Course outcomes
What students develop
Interpret instrumental, proxy, and model evidence
Evaluate adaptation strategies in social and ecological context
Communicate climate uncertainty and risk
Course content
Topics and questions
- Energy balance and circulation
- Climate variability and feedbacks
- Paleoclimate and proxy records
- Models and scenarios
- Adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience
Methods & resources
Tools and environments
- Climate datasets
- GIS and visualization software
- Model outputs and scenario tools
Evaluation
Demonstration of learning
- Climate-data analysis
- Adaptation case study
- Risk communication product
Program relationships
Where this course fits
Core
Geography, Geospatial Intelligence & Spatial Systems
Combines human and physical geography with GIS, remote sensing, LiDAR, cartography, spatial data, and field interpretation.
Core
Environmental Systems & Earth Observation
Combines ecology, climate, earth science, remote sensing, environmental data, and field monitoring.
Core
Climate, Ecology & Human Adaptation
Studies climate and ecological change together with human vulnerability, adaptation, resilience, and environmental decision making.
Core
Earth, Life & Planetary Systems
Original research across earth history, living systems, climate, planetary processes, and coupled environmental change.
Core
Human Adaptation & Epigenetics
Human biological variation, gene regulation, environment, stress, development, culture, and biosocial interpretation.
Core
Climate & Ecological Systems
Climate evidence, ecology, remote sensing, adaptation, resilience, field monitoring, and systems analysis.
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