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

WS 2021/2022
Th.: 14:00-16:00, online

Wolfgang Buermann

L, 2 ECTS

Starting date: tba.

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

Please check the e-learning and cmlife at the beginning of the semester, as changes due to Covid-19 might occur.