Climate

Four lectures:

1. Atmosphere and oceans as an energy transfer system; fundamentals of the general circulation.
2. The Polar Front, jet streams and cyclogenesis: why we get depressions.
3. Ocean currents: the North Atlantic Drift and the thermohaline circulation.
4. Atmosphere-ocean interactions: the El Niño Southern Oscillation.

Practical:

Climate of the British Isles

Practical answers

Climate change

Three lectures:

1. Ice Ages: structure and evidence
2. Ice ages: some causes
3. Rapid environmental change in the Highlands and the Alps