Program on Climate Change 588, Winter 2008
Global Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse Gases

Class Readings

Readings

Reading for week 1: IPCC "Climate Change 2007: The Scientific Basis" Technical Summary, available at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-ts.pdf

For your information, the full IPCC 2007 reports are available at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm

You might also find useful the following introduction to the greenhouse effect and discussion of radiative forcing (Chapter 7 in "Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry" by D. Jacob, Princeton U. Press, 1999)

References for week 2:

Book Chapter on Carbonate Chemistry:

Emerson and Hedges, Chemical oceanography and the marine Carbon Cycle, Carbonate Chemistry, Chapt 4

Carbon Cycle Update of the IPCC4: IPCC4, Chapter 7, pg, 511-539

Reading and Reference for week 3:

Reference, Book Chapter on the Marine Carbon Cycle:

Emerson and Hedges, Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon Cycle, The Marine Carbon Cycle, Chapt 11

Reading, Four Box Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Cycle model:

Sarmiento and Toggweiler, 1984, Nature, 308, 621-624

Reading and Reference for Week 4:

Chapter 7 in IPCC 2007: Sections 7.4 and 7.5

Reading for Week 5:

Reading and References for Weeks 6 & 7:

     Reading

     LeQuere et al, 2007, Science, 316, 1735

     Battle et al., 2003, Science, 287, 2467

     Reference:

     Emerson and Hedges, Chapter 11

     Carbon Cycle Update

     Numerical Recipes Chapter 19:  19.1 p 818-82419.2 p 825-837; 19.3 838-844

Reading for Week 8: 

     Keller, McINerney and Bradford, 2008, Climate Change, in press

    

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