Chap. Climate/Change and Land Resources 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Assessment of land resources 5.3 Land productivity 5.4 Land degradation --Soil erosion

Chap. 4 Climate/Change and Water Resources Quantity assessment of water resources Available water resources Supplying water resources Water resources requirement Quality assessment of water resources Impacts of climate changes on water resources

Chapter 3 3.4 Crop growth and its modeling 3.4.1 Components of plant growth 3.4.2 Empirical models 3.4.3 Process-based models 3.4.4 Case studies Date

3.4 Crop growth and its modeling 3.4.1 Components of plant growth 3.4.2 Empirical models 3.4.3 Process-based models 3.4.4 Case studies

Chap. Climate/Change and Agriculture 3.1 Environment and plant growth 3.2 Inventory of climate resources 3.3 Plant growth and crop growth models 3.4 Impacts of climate changes on agriculture

Content Chap.1 Introduction Chap. 2 Background knowledge-Climate Change Chap. 3 Climate/change and agriculture Chap. 4 Climate/change and water resources Chap. Climate/change and land resources Chap. 6 Climate/change and disasters

Chapter 3 Chap. Climate/Change and Agriculture 3.1 Environment and plant growth 3.2 Inventory of climate resources 3.4 Plant growth and crop growth models 3.5 Impacts of climate changes on agriculture

Chapter 2 Chap. 2 Climate and Its Change -Background Knowledge 2.1 Climate and climate system 2.2 Climate changes 2.3 Climate models and its applications Date Assessment of climate/change impacts

Course for graduate students Goals of the course Understanding of basic theories on impacts of climate/changes Knowing of basic tools or methods on assessment of climate/change impacts Applications in your interested field studies

R30 Model One of the simulations conducted as part of the GFDL-University Consortium project is a 17 year simulation in which the lower boundary conditions repeat the mean seasonal cycle. Attributes of the model simulation are given below