Climate Change (old guide)
Provides resources on climate change and global warming from the perspective of the disciplines of science, social science and humanities.
Mathematics and climate change
Image from Yale Climate Connections https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2014/06/more-temperature-variability-in-a-warming-world-not-so/
The discipline of mathematics provides the statistical analysis and mathematical formulas and models to understand a changing climate.
Web resources
- Mathematics and ClimateFrom AMS, the American Mathematical Society
- Mathematical Moments - Predicting Climate (podcast)From AMS, the American Mathematical Society (11 minutes)
- Mathematics And Climate ChangeFrom +Plus Magazine, University of Cambridge
- Strength in Numbers: Mathematicians Unite to Tackle Climate Change and Other Planetary ProblemsFrom Scientific American, March 2013
- Climate ModelsFrom NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Streaming Video
Professor Chris Budd, Gresham College, U.K., describes complex climate models and the assumptions that go into them. (59 minutes)