ATOC 1060 Videos and Slides of Lectures from Spring 2021 

Part 1 - The Earth System, Feedbacks, Radiation and Earth's Energy Balance, Hadley Circulation
 

Introduction to ATOC 1060 - Climate vs. weather, tipping points, and current events (Chapter 1)

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Slides Thursday, January 14, 2021

Asynchronous - Read Chapter 1 (p 1-19) and Chapter 2 (p 21-26, 32-33)

Week 2 - Chapter 3 - Earth's Effective Temperature, The Ice-Albedo Feedback (Chapter 3, 36-37, 42-44)

Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Slides Thursday, January 21, 2021

Asynchronous - Read Chapter 3 (p 37-41), Properties of electromagnetic radiation, Inverse square law, Blackbody Radiation (YouTube video)

Week 3 - Earth's Surface Temperature, Atmospheric Composition, and the Greenhouse Effect

Thursday, January 28, 2021 - atmospheric composition, water vapor, clouds, the greenhouse effect, and vertical profile of temperature

Asynchronous: Watch the first 45 minutes of this video

Week 4 - Earth's Energy Balance, Water Vapor and Clouds, General Circulation 

Thursday, February 4, 2021 - Energy balance, differential heating and cooling, and general circulation

Chapter 4 - Atmospheric Circulation, climate, and continentality

Thursday, February 11 - Exam 1 - watch for study guide here

Part 2 - Oceans and Solid Earth

Chapter 5 - Ocean Circulation
Geostrophy, Surface currents, Gyres, Ekman Spiral, and Ekman Transport

Formation of Deep Water, the Ocean Conveyor Belt

Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil

Composition of deep ocean waters, rapid (natural) climate change in Greenland

Air-Sea interactions and short-term "climate states."

Chapter 6 - The Cryosphere

The Cryosphere (with connections to "Crude: The Incedible Journey of Oil")

Exam 2

Chapter 7 - Plate Tectonics (quick summary - see Chapter 7 for details)

Review of cryosphere, Quick summary of Chapter 7 (Plate Tectonics) and Intro to Carbon Cycle

Part 3 - Carbon Cycle and the Human Influence

Chapter 8 - Carbon Cycle
Introduction to the carbon cycle, reservoirs, residence times, and steady-state

The Short-term (land-biosphere) Carbon Cycle, a bit more on steady state, and introduction to the Biological Pump
Nutrient Limitation, Redfield Ratios, Inorganic Carbon Cycle, and aside on atmospheric Oxygen

The inorganic carbon cycle

Weathering and atmospheric CO2, and Introduction to the Biosphere (Chapter 9)

Exam 3 Review  (helpful notes from 2013)

Exam 3

Part 4 - Climate Change, Past and Future

Chapter 9 and 11 (especially oxygen and ozone)

Chapter 12, 14 - Past Ice Ages

The Pleistocene era and Earth's Orbital Variations (Chapter 14)

Glacial Climate Feedbacks (Chapter 14)

Extra material - please read (lots of this has been presented already)

Short-term climate variability (Chapter 15)