CLIMATE CHANGE

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Lecture Notes

Hydrologic Cycle (ppt file)

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Carbon Cycle (Ancient )  (ppt file)

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Carbon Cycle (Modern)  (ppt file)

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Background on Ocean Acidification  (ppt file)

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                Royal Society 2005 Report on Ocean Acidification

Trace Gases  (ppt file)

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Sea Level Rise (ppt file)

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CO₂ Burial Technologies  (ppt file)

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Assigned Readings

    Hydrologic Cycle - Loaiciga et al. 1996,   Labat et al. 2004,  Zhang et al. 2007, Tebaldi et al. 2006

                                     Barnett et al. 2005,  Gedney et al. 2006, Douville et al. 2002,

                                    Gordon et al. 2005

    Carbon Cycle - Sarmiento & Gruber 2002    IPCC 2007 Chapter 6

                                Whiting and Chanton

                                Orr et al. 2005

                                Caldiera and Wickett 2003

    Sea Level Rise -    Church and White 2006,  Church et al. 2004  , Chao et al. 2008

Paleoclimate - Barnes et al. 1999

                           Ruddiman 2003

                            van Hoof et al. 2006

Global Dimming

                        Contrails

                        Liepert 2002

Snowball Earth  - Background ppt

                    Hoffman et al. 1998

                    Bao et al. 2008