Subject Code:: CL6L125	Name: Science of Climate and Climate Change	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit:3
Pre-requisite(s):
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. Climate Change synthesis report (2007), IPCC 2. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC 3. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, IPCC 4. Kevin E Trenberth: Climate System Modeling, Cambridge University Press 5. Kendal McGuffie, Ann Henderson-Sellers: A Climate Modeling Premier, Wiley