# Lecture Notes

Lecture notes files.
SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES
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1 | Introduction and overview | (PDF)
2 | Institutions I: political and analytical organizations | (PDF - 1.0 MB)
3 | Review of the mathematics of climate analysis | (PDF)
4 | Climate I: past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation | (PDF - 1.3 MB)
5 | Economics primer | (PDF)
6 | Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans | (PDF - 1.1 MB)
7 | Economics of the global commons | (PDF)
8 | Economics I: economic growth, technology and greenhouse gas emissions | (PDF)
9 | Institutions II: the international climate negotiations | (PDF)
10 | Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control | (PDF)
11 | Introduction to the Toy Integrated Global System Model |
12 | Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere | (PDF - 1.2 MB)
13 | Analysis of the benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation | (PDF)
14 | Economics III: climate policy analysis | (PDF)
15 | Emissions trading and tax systems | (PDF)
16 | Climate machine IV: regional impacts of climate change | (PDF - 3.2 MB)
17 | Review of methods of uncertainty analysis | (PDF)
18 | Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis | (PDF)
19 | Sea level rise and adaptation | (PDF - 2.6 MB)
20 | Methods for decision under uncertainty | (PDF)
21 | Integrated assessment II: deciding global effort and burden shares |
22 | Climate change and the Arctic region |
23 | Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis | (PDF - 2.9 MB)
24 | Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise |
25 | Student team presentations |
26 | Final summary and discussion |