This is a collection of websites and services that monitor or analyze the temperature of the Earth with regular, public updates. Data Collectors and Analysis: NASA: Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) Make your own GISTEMP Plot NOAA: [...]
Uncertainty Introduction (30:34 Minute Lecture, slides, pdf): Science does not produce facts; it produces knowledge with a description of uncertainty. Knowledge is imperfect for many reasons. This lectures describes and categorizes different sources of uncertainty, and introduces how to use different sources [...]
Image: Rood family cabin, intact but moved, on the Neuse River, North Carolina, after Hurricane Florence and before Hurricane Dorian (August 2019). What is its future? This course was designed for the Climate and Space (CLaSP) MEng in Applied Climate. It [...]
Takeaways from Climate Change Class If you don't want to spend the time on the course, here are some things worth knowing. We are at the beginning of a long period of sustained climate change. Plan for change. The climate will not [...]
This is a collection of recorded lectures and reference materials that provide an introduction to climate change science. The lectures are in different states of production, and updated occasionally. These lectures are part of Climate / EAS 480 at the University of [...]
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This material has evolved from several years of doing one or two guest lectures in classes at the University of Michigan in many disciplines. The students are usually climate interested, and they want a summary lecture or two. They want to understand the [...]
Picture: Munising Falls, Munising, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula, April 2015. This material has evolved from several years of doing one or two guest lectures in classes at the University of Michigan in many disciplines. The students are usually climate interested, and [...]
This is a collection of recorded lectures that serve as a 1 - 3 hour introduction to climate change science. It is made of two other collections: https://openclimate.org/one-hour-summary-of-climate-change-short-course/ and https://openclimate.org/basics-of-the-causes-of-climate-change/ This material has evolved from several years of doing one or [...]
Image: Tower of the Winds, Athens, Greece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds: This annotated lecture introduces how to take measurements of the Earth's climate, uncertainty associated with measurements, how observations have changed over time, challenges in interpretation of climate change. Despite the shortcomings of temperature as [...]