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  • Assignment 5 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Assignment 4 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Assignment 3 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Assignment 2 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Assignment 1 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Tutorials

    The tutorial is an opportunity to pick a topic of your choice from the universe of topics pertaining to the subjects of water, climate change, and health and share that with the class. The tutorial will be undertaken either with one teammate, or individually. It can be done in any format of your choice, with creative, non-traditional pedagogies (eg. demos, games, workshops, other activities) most welcome. 

    There will be roughly one tutorial per week.

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  • Graduate Course Project

    Each graduate student taking this class for credit should decide on a term-project. We ask for a 10-page written report (maximum length), and a 20 minute oral presentation to the class before the end of term. Undergraduates do not have to give an oral report (but may, if they wish) and a six-page paper is acceptable. Projects can expand on something covered in class, or be some climate-relevant project not touched upon. In the past, most such projects have been reviews of some interesting topics. A few students have succeeded in doing an original piece of work, but this is certainly not a requirement.

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  • Ocean Carbon System

    In this problem set you will calculate the amount of anthropogenic CO2 taken up by the ocean when ocean parameters have changed in response to global climate change.

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  • Ocean Physics and Climate

    The object of this problem set is to explore climate sensitivity in a slightly more complex version of the multi-level radiative-convective model discussed in class.

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  • Paleoclimate

    Problem set focused on paleoclimate from the course Climate Physics and Chemistry.

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