Climate Change Science (NPTEL, IISc Bangalore)

About this course

An NPTEL course from IISc Bangalore on the physical science of climate change: energy balance, feedbacks, past climates, climate models, policy and impacts on India. Who it's for: science and engineering students, UPSC aspirants and anyone who wants to understand climate change. These are the free, official videos of the "Climate Change Science" playlist (NPTEL) from the NPTEL - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru YouTube channel (youtube.com/@nptel-indianinstituteofsci8064). All videos belong to NPTEL and IISc Bangalore; Sikhami is not affiliated with NPTEL and IISc Bangalore and simply arranges the public playlist into a course, so you can learn one lesson at a time and keep track of your progress.

What you will learn

• Energy balance models and radiative transfer • Clouds, aerosols, CO2 and climate feedbacks • General circulation models and model resolution • Past climates: paleoclimate, Milankovitch theory, Snowball Earth and ice ages • Ocean circulation, monsoons, ozone depletion and heat waves • Climate agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol

Course content

1 section · 61 lectures · 31h 45m

1. 1. Climate Change Science

   • Intro Climate Change Science9m
   • Lec 01 Introduction30m
   • Lec 02 Global Mean Temperature26m
   • Lec 03 Blackbody Radiation34m
   • Lec 04 Properties of Real Surfaces33m
   • Lec 05 Planetary Albedo33m
   • Lec 06 Simple Energy Balance Model31m
   • Lec 07 Multiple-Equilibrium States35m
   • Lec 08 General Circulation Models36m
   • Lec 09 Feedbacks in the Climate System36m
   • Lec 10 Feedback Analysis28m
   • Lec 11 Cloud Feedbacks33m
   • Lec 12 Cloud feedbacks (continued)33m
   • Lec 13 Radiative transfer in gases34m
   • Lec 14 Radiative Transfer (continued)33m
   • Lec 15 Radiative transfer (continued)33m
   • Lec 16 Global warming potential29m
   • Lec 17 Ozone depletion36m
   • Lec 18 Ozone depletion(continued)23m
   • Lec 19 Montreal Protocol37m
   • Lec 20 Two-layer model23m
   • Lec 21 Meridional variation27m
   • Lec 22 Paleoclimate32m
   • Lec 23 Paleoclimate(continued)30m
   • Lec 24 Last ice age32m
   • Lec 25 Last ice age33m
   • Lec 26 Atlantic meridional ocean circulation31m
   • Lec 27 Simulation of AMOC35m
   • Lec 28 Simulation of AMOC (continued)31m
   • Lec 29 AMOC during deglaciation34m
   • Lec 30 Dansgaard-Oeschger events32m
   • Lec 31 Theory of Ice ages31m
   • Lec 32 Milankovitch Theory34m
   • Lec 33 Milankovitch Theory(continued)33m
   • Lec 34 Milankovitch Theory(continued)32m
   • Lec 35 Stochastic resonance34m
   • Lec 36 Glacial to interglacial transition30m
   • Lec 37 Simulation of Glacial to interglacial34m
   • Lec 38 Simulation of glacial to interglacial30m
   • Lec 39 Snowball earth33m
   • Lec 40 Snowball earth (continued)32m
   • Lec 41 Simulation of snowball earth33m
   • Lec 42 snowball earth cycle29m
   • Lec 43 Impact of aerosols on climate32m
   • Lec 44 Relative roles of CO2 and aerosols31m
   • Lec 45 Kyoto Protocol33m
   • Lec 46 climate models24m
   • Lec 47 Approximations in climate models36m
   • Lec 48 How good is the model simulation28m
   • Lec 49 Model biases32m
   • Lec 50 The impact of model resolution31m
   • Lec 51 Cascade of uncertainty23m
   • Lec 52 Extreme events24m
   • Lec 53 Humid heat waves28m
   • Lec 54 Extreme rainfall34m
   • Lec 55 Monsoons29m
   • Lec 56 Simulation of monsoon33m
   • Lec 57 Why is Venus hot?24m
   • Lec 58 Venus energy balance30m
   • Lec 59 Denial of global warming29m
   • Lec 60 Wrap up29m