12.842 Past and Present Climate (MIT)

12.842 Past and Present Climate (MIT) course introduces students to climate studies, including beginnings of the solar system, time scales, and climate in human history. It is offered to both undergraduate and graduate students with different requirements.

• Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Language: English
• Author: Wunsch, Carl
• Lisence Terms: Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm
• Tags: climate, climate change, proxies, ice cores, primordial atmosphere, ozone chemistry, carbon and oxygen cycles, heat and water budgets, aerosols, water vapor, clouds, ocean circulation, orbital variations, volcanism, plate tectonics, solar system, solar variability, climate model, energy balance,
• Course Publishing Date: Jun 17, 2009

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