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

WS 2022/2023
2023-01-13-2023-01-14 (several days), tba; 2023-02-03-2023-02-04 (several days), tba

Wolfgang Buermann

S, 3 ECTS

Dates: Seminar blocks (4 days in total):  13 & 14 January 2023, 3 & 4 February 2023

The seminar is held by Cécile Remy

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