Special Subject in Computer Science

Readings

• Buy at MIT Press Emanuel, Kerry. What We Know About Climate Change . MIT Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780262535915. ↗
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• Alternatively: Emanuel, Kerry. “ Climate Science, Risk & Solutions .” Climate Primer . ↗
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• Paper on the linearity of outgoing longwave (thermal) radiation: Koll and Cronin (2018) ↗
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• Alley, Richard B., Jochem Marotzke, et al. “ Abrupt climate change .” Science 299, no. 5615 (2003): 2005–2010. ↗
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• Zachos, James C., Gerald R. Dickens, and Richard E. Zeebe. “ An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics .” Nature 451, no. 7176 (2008): 279–283. ↗
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• Braconnot, Pascale, Sandy P. Harrison, et al. “ Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data .” Nature Climate Change 2, no. 6 (2012): 417–424. ↗
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• Burke, K. D., J. W. Williams, et al. “ Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 52 (2018): 13288–13293. ↗
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• Emanuel, Kerry, John Fernández, et al. “ Two donors, two deaths, two responses .” Guest column, The Tech, Sept. 19, 2019. ↗
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• Evans, Michael, Susan Tolwinski-Ward, Diane Thompson, and Kevin Anchukaitis. “ Applications of proxy system modeling in high resolution paleoclimatology .” Quaternary Science Reviews 76 (2013): 16–28. ↗
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• Tardif, Robert, Gregory Hakim, et al. “ Last Millennium Reanalysis with an expanded proxy database and seasonal proxy modeling .” Climate of the Past 15, no. 4 (2019): 1251–1273. ↗
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• Pérez-Ortiz, María, Antonio Manuel Durán-Rosal, et al. “ On the use of evolutionary time series analysis for segmenting paleoclimate data .” Neurocomputing 326 (2019): 3–14. ↗
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• Valdes, Paul. “ Built for stability .” Nature Geoscience 4, no. 7 (2011): 414–416. ↗
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• Schmittner, Andreas. “ Processes .” Chapter 6 in Introduction to Climate Science . 2018. ↗
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• Vallis, Geoffrey K. “Global warming and the ocean.” Chapter 7 in Climate and the Oceans . Princeton University Press, 2012.
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• Haines, Andy, Markus Amann, et al. “ Short-lived climate pollutant mitigation and the Sustainable Development Goals .” Nature Climate Change 7, no. 12 (2017): 863–869. ↗
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• Thompson, Tammy, Sebastian Rausch, Rebecca K. Saari, and Noelle E. Selin. “ A systems approach to evaluating the air quality co-benefits of US carbon policies .” Nature Climate Change 4, no. 10 (2014): 917–923. ↗
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• Li, Mingwei, Da Zhang, et al. “ Air quality co-benefits of carbon pricing in China .” Nature Climate Change 8, no. 5 (2018): 398–403. ↗
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• Stevens, Bjorn, and Sandrine Bony. “ What are climate models missing? ” Science 340, no. 6136 (2013): 1053–1054. ↗
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• Rolnick, David, Priya L. Donti, et al. “ Tackling climate change with machine learning .” arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05433 (2019). ↗
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• O’Gorman, Paul A., and John G. Dwyer. “ Using machine learning to parameterize moist convection: Potential for modeling of climate, climate change, and extreme events .” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10, no. 10 (2018): 2548–2563. ↗
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• Flato, Gregory, Jochem Marotzke, et al. “ Evaluation of climate models .” In Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , pp. 741-866. Cambridge University Press, 2014. ↗
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• Drake, Henri F., Tristan H. Abbott, and Megan Lickley. “ Assessing Climate Model Projections of Anthropogenic Warming Patterns .” 2019. ↗
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• Zhu, Feng, Julien Emile-Geay, et al. “ Climate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 18 (2019): 8728–8733. ↗
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• Socolow, Robert H., and Stephen W. Pacala. “A plan to keep carbon in check.” Scientific American 295, no. 3 (2006): 50–57.
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• Stokes, Leah C., and Christopher Warshaw. “ Renewable energy policy design and framing influence public support in the United States .” Nature Energy 2, no. 8 (2017): 1–6. ↗
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• Muyskens, John and Kevin Uhrmacher. “Where 2020 Democrats stand on climate change.” The Washington Post , April 8, 2020.
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