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Part 3: Status of the Earth's climate system

Topic 3-1: Climate data analysis

• Analysis of Climate and Weather Data course at ETH
• R software website

Topic 3-2: Atmospheric and oceanic circulations

Data and atlas

• CERES atlas
• NOAA ESRL PSD interactive plotting and analysis page
• ECMWF ERA-40 气候图集
• ISCCP 全球云气候图集
• NOAA ESRL PSD gridded datasets
• NOAA PSD 20th Century Reanalysis

Topic 3-3: Climate variability and teleconnections

Intraseasonal

MJO

Interannual

El Nino / La Nina / Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

• NOAA ERSL PSD ENSO page

Interdecadal

AMO

PDO

Topic 3-4: Early history of the Earth system

• Brief Introduction to the History of Climate This is Chapter 1 in the book "Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes". It provides a nice motivation to the study of paleoclimatology.

• 竺可桢(1972):"中国近五千年来气候变迁的初步研究"

• Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 Homepage

• The Visible Paleo Earth Project Spectacular visuals of the Earth's history. Highly recommended.

• A journey through climate history A great interactive timeline of Earth's climate history.

• GSA地质年代表（英文）

• 地质年代地层表（中文）

• 第四纪地质分层序列

• 重建的地质年代地图

• 地质年代古气候及地质证据

• A timeline of life's evolution

Topic 3-5: Methods in Paleoclimatology

Paleoclimatology data

• NOAA古气候数据库

• The Science of Tree Rings

• Climate change: How do we know? This is a good video showing how ice cores are drilled and analyzed to retrieve information about past climate.

• How to drill a 2-mile deep ice core

• Introduction to temperature reconstruction from geothermal (borehole) measurements

Isotope Geochemistry

• Lecture notes from the Isotope Geochemistry course at Cornell University Very readable and highly recommended.

• Interactive chart of nuclides

Millennium Temperature Reconstruction and the Hockey Stick Controversy

• Bradley and Jones (1993) paper Describes the CPS method.

• Mann et al. (1998) paper Describes the CFR method.

• Mann et al. (1999) paper Extention of Mann et al. (1998) to the last millennium.

• von Storch et al. (2004) paper

• Wahl et al. (2006) Comments on von Storch et al. (2004).

• von Storch et al. (2006) Reply to Wahl et al. (2006).

• Ch. 5 of the IPCC AR5 WG1 report

Topic 3-6: Paleoclimate in the Precambrian

Faint Young Sun Paradox

• Sagan and Mullen (1972), Science

• Rosing et al. (2010), Nature

Snowball Earth

• 冰雪地球理论简介

• 胡永云、闻新宇(2005):"冰雪地球的研究进展综述"

• Hoffman and Schrag (2002) review article

Great Oxygenation Event

• History of Oxygen 1 lecture slides from the book "How to build a habitable Planet"

• History of Oxygen 2 lecture slides from the book "How to build a habitable Planet"

Topic 3-7： Glacial/interglacial climate

• Wally Broecker's book "What Drives Glacial Cycles?" gives a nice review of glacial research and the development of the orbital theory.
• Hays et al. (1976)
• Paillard (1998)
• Paillard (2001) A nice review of the orbital theory and some more recent developments on the G/IG cycle