Required for : Elective

Typically Taught By : Ambarish Karmalkar

 Examines regional-scale climate processes and modeling approaches.

 The course introduces students to the interactions among Earth system processes and how they influence climate variability and change at spatial scales most relevant to natural and human systems. Students explore key regional processes and local climate changes through exercises and data analysis based on a variety of observational and climate model datasets. The course emphasizes assessing climate variability and change in the Northeast U.S. and coastal New England. It also examines how coastline features and topography, ocean currents, and air–sea interactions create sharp climate gradients in coastal regions, how these patterns shift with climate change, and how sea levels are changing along the Northeast coast.