The final module on Medieval and Modern Global Warming, built here at ESE, explores ways in which land use, population, energy systems, solar radiation and the carbon cycle influence mean global temperature. The Global Warming module is designed to be used by student teams exploring the causes of, and solutions to, potential increases in mean global temperature. Students can control birth rates, mortality rates and neonatal survival. Students can control the area devoted to each of six land types, and the net primary productivity of each land type. The carbon cycle through the atmosphere, mixing ocean, soil and flora.
Students can control the transfer kinetics between any two compartments.
Solar radiation energy balance. It also has been tested at more than a dozen colleges and universities in North Carolina, England and Austria. The goal of this module, and of the other two in the VTEC project, is to stimulate development of courses in which interact with scientific models and data students sets while in interdisciplinary teams. Please contact the editor for a hardcopy if you do not have Internet access. CL Lassiter, Laura Haak Subscription is free.