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

WS 2025/2026
2026-01-23-2026-01-25 (several days), S25 (GEOII) (tbc)

Jeremias Gebhardt

S, 3 ECTS

Preliminary meeting: 23 October 2025, 4 pm to 5.30 pm, Online via zoom. Meeting starts 4.00 pm sharp! Please join via this link: https://uni-augsburg.zoom-x.de/j/67082724764?pwd=egiMoJC5CPh3jCY3N3OdwEXXKsFrIF.1 Meeting-ID: 670 8272 4764 Kenncode: S#v4t^ Kenncode: 149162

Course Dates:  23 to 25 January 2026

Time: 9 am to 6 pm (on 23 and 24 January 2026) / 9 am to 4 pm (on 25 January 2026)

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