Learn · Basics of Climate Modeling
Lecture 10 of 28Week 2
Lapse Rate and Atmospheric Stability
Prof. Asif Qureshi · IIT Hyderabad
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All the lectures
- ClimateTrends
- Components of the Climate System
- Vertical Motions in the atmosphere
- Hydrosphere
- Cryosphere
- Basic data analysis
- Radiative Balance and Effective Temperature
- Earth's Surface Temperature and Atmospheric Temperature
- Ratiative forcing
- Lapse Rate and Atmospheric Stability
- Concept of Radiative Forcing
- Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity
- Physical Feedbacks
- Chemical Cycles and Box modeling
- Geochemical Cycles
- Types of Climate Models: Focusing on Energy Balance Models
- Meridional Energy Transport Components in One-Dimensional Energy Balance Models
- Applicability of Climate Models and the Snowball Earth Hypothesis
- Atmosphere-Ocean System
- Harvey and Schneider (1985) J. Geophysical Research Vol. 90))
- Transient response of climate to external forcing on timescales of 1 to 10,000 years
- Wigley and Schlesinger 1985
- Transport of Energy and Matter
- Small-scale and Large-scale Motions in the Atmosphere and Oceans
- Earth's energy balance and the mechanisms of meridional heat transport
- General Circulation Models (GCMs)
- Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs)
- Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs)