Covers the Earth's climate system components, interactions, and energy balance, including the impact of anthropogenic forcings and the role of the biosphere.
Explores Earth's energy balance, including solar radiation interaction with the atmosphere and surface, blackbody radiation, and atmospheric processes.
Explores electromagnetic wave propagation, including Poynting vector, irradiance, dipole radiation, dielectric constant, and natural linewidth in atoms and radiation.
Explores electromagnetic waves' energy, momentum, and radiation pressure, including forces generated by radiation pressure and the transmission of waves through Earth's atmosphere.
Covers an overview of the climate system, including global issues, mechanisms of climate change, impacts on biodiversity, and the role of greenhouse gases.
