Mechanisms of Climate Change

The estimated duration of the course is 6 sections (weeks). A specific topic is studied during each week. It will be necessary to listen to 60-120 minutes of lecture materials per week, as well as study materials for self-education for 60-120 minutes. In each section (week) there are 8 to 12 video fragments (the duration of each lecture is from 5 to 20 minutes each). The video lectures of the first two weeks are open access, the rest of the materials will be available after you pay for the course.

• Hartmann, D.L., 2015. Global physical climatology (Vol. 103). Newnes.
• Taylor, F.W., 2005. Elementary climate physics. Oxford Univ. Press.
• Ahrens, C.D., 2011. Essentials of meteorology: an invitation to the atmosphere. Cengage Learning.
• Pinet, P.R., 2019. Invitation to oceanography. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• Roy, I., 2018. Climate Variability and Sunspot Activity: Analysis of the Solar Influence on Climate. Springer.
• Balakrishnaiah G., Reddy R.R., Gopal K.R. 2017. Aerosol Climatology and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions using MODIS. Scholars' Press. 
• Hyman, A., 2017, Climatology and Paleoclimatology. Syrawood Publishing House.
• Sullivan D., 2019. Advances in Climatology. CALLISTO REFERENCE
• Nuccitelli D., 2015. Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global. Praeger.

A wide international audience without the need for specialized training, young professionals in the field of climatology, specialists in scientific fields related to climatology, a student audience.

Students and professionals in the field of climatology will be offered a choice of more complex tasks.

To master the discipline, students must possess the following knowledge and competencies: to know the basics of geography, have a desktop computer and/or laptop.

1. Climate determination
2. Physical basis
3. Climate of the past
4. Mechanisms of climate change: External factors
5. Mechanisms of climate change: internal factors – variability of the climate system
6. The climate of the future and the consequences of climate change

• The physical processes behind world climate variations
• History of climate change throughout the ages and methods of its reconstruction
• Summarize the main mechanisms that impact climate change system leading to its changes
• Distinguish possible future climate scenarios and the role of human actions
• Uphold the conversation about climate change at an advanced level and explain the climate science basis to anyone
• Evaluate the incoming scientific and popular science information on global and regional climate changes

• Gaining a systematic understanding of physical processes underlying climate system changes
• The ability to highlight the basic principles of interaction between the components of the climate system
• Discriminate sources of paleoclimatic reconstruction
• Understand the difference between the dating methods of paleoclimatic information
• Distinguish the differences between the impact of internal and external factors on the climate system
• Correlate the growth rate of anthropogenic impact against the background of natural factors with the increase in surface temperature
• Skill to use resources to search for instrumental data
• The ability to maintain a conversation on climate change at an advanced level
• Analyze the incoming scientific nformation on global and regional climate changes

• Gaining a systematic understanding of physical processes underlying climate system changes
• The ability to highlight the basic principles of interaction between the components of the climate system
• Discriminate sources of paleoclimatic reconstruction
• Understand the difference between the dating methods of paleoclimatic information
• Distinguish the differences between the impact of internal and external factors on the climate system
• Correlate the growth rate of anthropogenic impact against the background of natural factors with the increase in surface temperature
• Skill to use resources to search for instrumental data
• The ability to maintain a conversation on climate change at an advanced level
• Analyze the incoming scientific nformation on global and regional climate changes

• Gaining a systematic understanding of physical processes underlying climate system changes
• The ability to highlight the basic principles of interaction between the components of the climate system
• Discriminate sources of paleoclimatic reconstruction
• Understand the difference between the dating methods of paleoclimatic information
• Distinguish the differences between the impact of internal and external factors on the climate system
• Correlate the growth rate of anthropogenic impact against the background of natural factors with the increase in surface temperature
• Skill to use resources to search for instrumental data
• The ability to maintain a conversation on climate change at an advanced level
• Analyze the incoming scientific nformation on global and regional climate changes
• Distinguish the incorrect and alarmed information on climate change

• Systemic and critical thinking (UK-1).
• Possession of basic knowledge of the mechanisms of climate change (OPK-2).
• Fundamental foundations of professional activity (UK-1 or OPK-1).