Subject Code:: CL6L122	Name: Climate Variability & Global Warming	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit:3
Pre-requisite(s):
Global distributions of temperature and precipitation, Koppen’s classification of climates; climate variability as estimated from atmospheric observations. Impact of climate changes, simple energy balance climate models; atmospheric general circulation models, their design and use for climate studies, coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM. Global efforts in understanding and predicting climate change through WCRP(CLIVAR), IPCC, IGBP etc; Impact of paleo-climatic proxy data on climate modelling. Text/Reference Books: 1. Climate Change synthesis report (2007), IPCC 2. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC 3. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, IPCC