Global climate system. (Image by MIT OCW.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Peter Stone
MIT Course Number
12.812
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course examines diagnostic studies of the Earth's atmosphere and discusses their implications for the theory of the structure and general circulation of the Earth's atmosphere. It includes some discussion of the validation and use of general circulation models as atmospheric analogs.