Climate Change Science

By Prof. J.Srinivasan | IISc Bangalore

Learners enrolled: 3495 | Exam registration: 384

ABOUT THE COURSE:

This course will provide an understanding of the factors that control earth’s climate, how the earth’s climate may change in the future and how stable is earth’s climate. The role of the sun in earth’s climate. What is the greenhouse effect? Why do ice ages occur? The radiative properties of earth’s surface and atmosphere.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: under-graduate students who want to know about the science related to climate change

PREREQUISITES: High school Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics sufficient.

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Environmental Sciences Energy and Environment
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	20 Jan 2025
End Date :	11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends :	03 Feb 2025
Exam Registration Ends :	28 Feb 2025
Exam Date :	27 Apr 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Weather and climate, blackbody radiation, spectral variation, Wien’s law

Week 2: emissivity, absorptivity and Kirchoff’s law, greenhouse effect

Week 3: Simple model for the global mean temperature

Week 4: Radiative properties of gases and greenhouse effect

Week 5: Stability of the earth’s climate

Week 6: Feedback in the earth’s climate system

Week 7: Climate sensitivity

Week 8: How did climate change in the past

Week 9: clouds and climate change

Week 10: Snowball earth

Week 11: Runaway Greenhouse in Venus

Week 12: Impact of climate change

Books and references

An introduction to Atmospheric Radiation by K.N.Liou, Academic Press,2nd edition, 2002
Global Warming Science: A Quantitative Introduction to Climate Change and its Consequences. Eli Tziperman. Princeton University Press,2022

Instructor bio

Prof. J.Srinivasan

IISc Bangalore

Prof. J.Srinivasan has worked on climate change and monsoons for the past 30 years,He was a lead author in the 2nd and 4th reports of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change(IPCC)and a review editor for the 3rd IPCC report. He was the Chairman of the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in IISc from 1997 to 2005.He was the first chairman of Divecha Centre for Climate Change established in IISc in 2009.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: April 27, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.

Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IISc Bangalore .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team