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

WS 2019/2020
We.: 16:00-20:00, S 22, GEO; Th.: 08:00-10:00, S 130 (NWIII)

Wolfgang Buermann

S, 3 ECTS

Dates: Seminar blocks on Wednesday and Thursday respectively

Wednesday 18 December 4-8 pm (S22) & Thursday 19 December 8-10 am (S130)
Wednesday 15 January 4-8 pm (S22) & Thursday 16 January 8-10 am (S130)

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