Courses taught at UCLA by Holger Brix (hbrix@ucla.edu)
Dates: TR, 10:45A-12:50P, MS7124
(Click here for the official class
pages or here to download the syllabus.)
Syllabus
(summer quarter
'08)
Lecture, four hours. Overview of
fundamentals of Earth's climate, including
greenhouse effect, water and chemical
cycles, outstanding features of atmospheric
and ocean circulation, and feedback between
different system components. Exciting and
contentious scientific puzzles of climate
system, including causes of ice ages,
greenhouse warming, and El
Niño. Importance of climate science
and prediction to society, with emphasis on
science's role in identifying, qualifying,
and solving environmental problems such as
ozone hole and greenhouse warming. P/NP or
letter grading.
Dates MWF, 11-11:50, MS7124B (Click here for more details)
Syllabus
(fall quarter '06)
Lecture
three hours. Requisite none. Introductory course for physical sciences,
life sciences, or engineering majors interested in the oceanic
environment.
The chemical composition of the oceans and the nature
of the physical, chemical, and biological processes governing this
composition in the past and present. The cycles of major and minor
oceanic constituents, with focus on those that are most important for
life, i.e. carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon, and oxygen. Processes
investigated are primary production, export production,
remineralization, diagenesis, air-sea gas exchange. Role of ocean
biogeochemical cycles for climate. Letter grading
12JUN08