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My first lecture of the semester: Climate Variability (rev)

已有 2519 次阅读 2011-1-31 07:39 |个人分类:Uniquely Hawaii|系统分类:教学心得| ENSO, weahter


On Monday, Jan 31, I will give my first lecture of the semester. The Course OCN310 is for undergraduate students at U. Hawaii, and the lecture on "Climate Variability"  usually covers ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) and PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation). One tends to start such a lecture with a picture showing fire burning over Australia, a typical case during El Nino, but not this time.

I will start with "Climate Change" vs. "Weather" that we experience daily (since a senior-citizen student asked me this question last week). Then, I will use a photo from "2010-2011 Queensland Floods" to lead to ENSO, and a weather map for Jan. 31 (indicating snow storm for US's midsection) to explain briefly the impact of negative AO (Arctic Oscillation) Index ...



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