Seminar: Climate Variability and Change: Natural and Man-Made (A1b) (74007)

WS 2024/2025
2025-01-24-2025-01-26 (several days), S25 (GEO) (tbc)

Wolfgang Buermann, Cécile Rémy

S, 3 ECTS

Dates:

Preliminary meeting tba

Please join the meeting via this link: tbd

+ Seminar block from 24 to 26 January 2025. 

Learning Objectives: The aim of this module is to teach fundamental knowledge about current climate development. 

Course Content: Basic principles of the climate system; naturally-occurring climate variability, climate change in the past; reconstruction of past climate; natural forcing-factors, circulation dynamics; human impact on the climate system; global warming; Greenhouse effect; land use change; aerosols; ozone depletion; global circulation models; forecasts; scenarios; fundamentals of energy and mass balance; modelling; sensitive parameters of global change