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

WS 2018/2019
Do.: 14:00-16:00, S 81 (NW II)

Christoph Beck

L, 2 ECTS

Starting date: 18.10.2018

 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