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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Seminar explores the difference ethnographic methods and engagements bring to evidence-making and to social theorizing. Various theoretical frameworks that inform the ways anthropologists engage, think and write about social experience, subjectivity, and politics today are probed. Which concepts do anthropologists use to approach lives caught in embattled geopolitics and in novel economic, technoscientific and legal constellations? Through which means can we highlight both larger social processes and human singularities? How theoretically generative is the ethnographic and what is the public role of anthropology today?
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Just as cross-cultural comparisons enable critical sociocultural analysis, cross-disciplinary juxtapositions help to expose and disorient unexamined assumptions about knowledges: particularly the conventional distinction between epistemological and ethical discourse. Readings and discussion consider disciplines as moral orders and disciplinary communities as historically contingent yet intellectually compelling contexts for meaning-making. While this Anthropology-of-Knowledges approach may be familiar in science studies, the seminar focuses on the social sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology) and humanities (e.g., history, journalism).
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Course treats inverse problems from both theoretical and applied perspectives. Students learn to develop the necessary theory to pose, interpret, and solve inverse problems, focusing on topics including error characterization, linear and non-linear methods, approximations, Kalman filters, use of prior constraints, and observing system design. Concepts are illustrated with examples from the current literature on the Earth's carbon cycle.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Despite the paramount importance of atmospheric water vapour for climate, our understanding of the processes that regulate its distribution and changes within a changing climate remains incomplete. This course analyses observations and discusses theoretical approaches, both basic concepts and novel ideas, to the problem. Course is for graduate students with a background in atmospheric and/or oceanic sciences, and students are encouraged to provide contributions from their own research experiences that are related to the course topic.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Structure and composition of terrestrial atmospheres. Fundamental aspects of electromagnetic radiation. Absorption and emission by atmospheric gases. Optical extinction of particles. Roles of atmospheric species in Earth's radiative energy balance. Perturbation of climate due to natural and antropogenic causes. Satellite observations of climate system.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Natural gas phase and heterogeneous chemistry in the troposphere and stratosphere, with a focus on elementary chemical kinetics; photolysis processes; oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen chemistry; transport of atmospheric trace species; tropospheric hydrocarbon chemistry and stratospheric halogen chemistry; stratospheric ozone destruction; local and regional air pollution, and chemistry-climate interactions are studied.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Thermodynamics of water-air systems. Overview of atmospheric energy sources and sinks. Planetary boundary layers. Closure theories for atmospheric turbulence. Cumulus convection. Interactions between cumulus convection and large-scale atmospheric flows. Cloud-convection-radiation interactions and their role in the climate system.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Physical principles fundamental to the theoretical, observational, and experimental study of the atmosphere and oceans. The equations of motion for rotating fluids. Hydrostatic and geostrophic balance. Conservation of potential vorticity. Introduction to quasi-geostrophic theory and baroclinic instability. Geophysical boundary layers. Rossby and gravity waves.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Observational evidence of atmospheric and oceanic waves; laboratory simulation. Surface and internal gravity waves; dispersion characteristics; kinetic energy spectrum; critical layer; forced resonance; instabilities. Planetary waves: scale analysis; physical description of planetary wave propagation; reflections; normal modes in a closed basin. Large-scale barclinic and barotropic instabilities. Eady and Charney models for barclinic instability, and energy transfer.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Barotropic and multilevel dynamic models; coordinate systems and boundary conditions; finite difference equations and their energetics; spectral methods; water vapor and its condensation processes; orography, cumulus convection, subgrid-scale transfer, and boundary layer processes; meteorological and oceanographic data assimilation; dynamic initialization; verification and predictability; and probabilistic forecasts.
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