GG1001 Physical Geography

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary of text: Wilson, Brury, Chapman (200) 'The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life', New Zealand Geographer, 56, 63-64

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 17 - Coastal Systems - the impacts of humans and climate Topics Covered: pollution of the coastal zone, low pressure zones Recommended Reading included (some available for download in this module) Lecture 18 - Arid zone geomorphology - processes and landscapes Topics covered: aridity index, dryland subtypes Recommended reading included in Lecture 18 continued & Lecture 19

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 18 - Arid zone geomorphology - processes and landscapes Topics covered: distribution of drylands, desert soils, dryland processes, dryland fluvial processes Recommended reading available in Lecture 18 continued & Lecture 19.

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 18 - Arid zone geomorphology - processes and landscapes Topics covered: key issues in drylands, impacts of dust in the environment Recommended reading included (some available to download in this module) Lecture 19 - Water in the desert - human use and climate change Topics covered: human uses of water resources Recommended reading available in Lecture 19 continued

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summaries from the texts: Elsner (2008) 'The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones', Nature, 455, 92-95 Emmanuel (2005) 'Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years', Nature, 436, 686-688 Holden (2012) 'An introduction to physical geography and the environment', Chapter 4: Atmospheric processes, ENSO, pg. 105-106

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Summary notes from: Cane, M.A. (2005) 'The evolution of El Nino, past and future', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 230, 227-240 McMichael et al, (2006) 'Climate change and human health: present and future risks', Lancet, 367, 859-869

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 13 - The Cryosphere in a changing world - the role of the cryosphere in global change Topics covered: Greenland Ice sheet, Antarctica, predictions, sensitivity of ice masses, study of past ice-streams, mega-floods Recommended reading available at Lecture 13 continued & Lecture 14

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 1 - Introduction - Earth Sciences Topics covered - contents of the course Lecture 2 - The atmosphere and the ocean - their importance to climate Topics Covered: earth temperature controls distribution of the Earth's heat, Ocean currents, atmospheric circulation Recommended readings included (some available to download in this module)

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 13 - The Cryosphere in a changing world - the role of the cryosphere in global change Topics covered: periglacial environments Recommended reading included (some available to download from this module) Lecture 14 - River systems - hydrological systems and their operations Topics covered: terminology, perennial rivers, ephemeral rivers Recommended reading available at Lecture 14 continued & Lecture 15

*All profits donated to the Black Lives Matter Movement.* Lecture 3 - Weather Systems - temperate regions and global warming. Topics covered: North Western Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe Recommended Reading included (some available for download in this module)