Instructors
HJ = Prof. Henry Jacoby
RP = Prof. Ronald Prinn
JC = Jason Cohen
MS = Marcus Sarofim
Lecture notes files.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
| 1 |
Introduction and overview (HJ and RP) (PDF) |
| 2 |
Institutions I: Political and analytical organizations (HJ and RP) (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
| 3 |
Review of the mathematics of climate analysis (JC) (PDF) |
| 4 |
Climate I: Past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation (RP) |
| 5 |
Institutions II: The international climate negotiations (HJ) (PDF) |
| 6 |
Climate II: Dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans (RP) |
| 7 |
Economics primer (MS) (PDF) |
| 8 |
Economics I: Economic growth, technology and GHG emissions (HJ) (PDF) |
| 9 |
Economics of the global commons (MS) (PDF) |
| 10 |
Economics II: The economics of GHG emissions control (HJ) (PDF) |
| 11 |
Introduction to the Toy IGSM (MS and JC) (PDF) |
| 12 |
Climate III: Interaction of atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere (RP) |
| 13 |
Emissions trading systems (HJ) (PDF) |
| 14 |
Climate IV: Regional impacts of climate change (RP) |
| 15 |
Analysis of the benefits of GHG mitigation (HJ) (PDF) |
| 16 |
Economics III: Climate policy analysis (HJ) (PDF) |
| 17 |
Pollution-climate interactions (JC) (PDF) |
| 18 |
Review of methods of uncertainty analysis (MS and JC) (PDF) |
| 19 |
Integrated assessment I: Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis (RP) |
| 20 |
Analysis of the non-CO2 gases (MS) (PDF - 1.8 MB) |
| 21 |
Integrated assessment II: The Kyoto protocol and post-2012 options (HJ) (PDF) |
| 22 |
Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise |
| 23 |
Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis (RP) |
| 24 |
Integrated assessment III: Adaptation and geoengineering (HJ and RP) (PDF) |
| 25 |
Student team presentations (All and guests) |
| 26 |
Final summary and discussion (All) |