Lecture: Natural Climate and Human Impacts on Climate (A1a) (74006)

WS 2025/2026
Th.: 14:00-16:00, online MUVI-room (NW II between S 80 and S 82)

Wolfgang Buermann

L, 2 ECTS

Starting date: 16 October 2025, exactly at 2 pm (and not 2.15 pm!)

The lecture given by Prof. Wolfgang Buermann from the University of Augsburg will be held online. All course participants will follow the online lecture as a group in the MUVI-room (NW II, between S 80 and S 82). More details in cmlife and the corresponding e-learning course.

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