Subject Code: CL5L401 Subject Name:  Science of Climate Change L-T-P : 2-0-0 Credit: 2
Pre-requisite(s):  Nil
Description of the climate system, natural greenhouse effect and the effect of trace gases and aerosols, feedbacks in the climate system, climate change in the past, ice ages, proxy records, abrupt climate change, Instrumental record of climate, climate variability on various time-scales, simple models of climate, General Circulation Models, natural and anthropogenic climate change: detection and attribution, impacts and mitigation of climate change.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller: IPCC, 2007, Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing. In: Climate Change 2007: Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  
  2. J. David Neelin. Climate Change and Climate Modeling, Cambridge University Press
  3. Kevin E. Trenberth. Climate System Modeling, Cambridge University Press
  4. Boris A. Kagan. Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling, Cambridge University Press