Prerequisites: none
Description: Application of the scientific method to critical issues of the global climate change debate. Provides an understanding of Earth’s climate system and the feedback systems that regulate the climate “over long- and short-term” time scales. Includes general oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns, the major reservoirs and mecha- nisms of exchange of the global carbon cycle, and the influence and origin of greenhouse gases.
Referenced in
- College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences — General Education Options
- College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences — General Education Options
- The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering — General Education Options
- The School of Business Administration — General Education Options
- Earth Sciences — Major Requirements
- Earth Sciences — Minor