What have been driving climate changes of the past and present Earth? What is the future of our Earth's climate? And how should we deal with the future climate change? We, the human beings, have not yet obtained the answer to those problems. This should be the root of the global environmental problem and related energy issue, which we are now facing.
Short and long-term climate changes can be driven even without anthropogenic effects. One of such drivers is interaction among the atmosphere, ocean, and solid earth, which are inherent to the Earth's climate system. Forcing from the outside the Earth like change of solar activity and meteorite impact can also drive climate change.
In this course, we are aimed at understanding past, present, and future of the Earth's climate system as well as at finding the solution to the global environmental problem, based on a fusion among academic disciplines of Meteorology, Climate Dynamics, Ocean Climate, Sustainable Earth System, and Future Earth System Science.