Global climate models, past, present and future: The Earth’s climate system and reconstruction of past climates
The Earth’s climate system
Feedbacks
PPT Slide
Adsorption of radiation in the atmosphere
The need for weather
Northward energy transport
Atmospheric transport
Ocean transport (surface currents)
Learning from the past
Spectrum of atmospheric temperatures (idealized)
Milankovitch cycles
Climate archives
Ice cores
Ocean sediments
Groundwater
Paleodata and modeling
Continental reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum
Climap
What did we learn?
What will the future bring?
Mauna Loa CO2
Ice house or hot house?
“Poking the angry beast”
Website with projections and links:
Frontiers
Regional climate change: An Assessment of the Metropolitan East Coast Region
Email: martins@ldeo.columbia.edu
Home Page: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~martins/irvine/