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

WS 2024/2025
2025-01-24-2025-01-26 (several days), S 25 (GEOII)

Cécile Rémy

S, 3 ECTS

Dates:  24 to 26 January 2025, in S 25 (GEO II)

Time: from 9 am to 6 pm on 24 and 25 January/ from 9 am to 4 pm on 26 January

Preliminary meeting: 23 October 2024, from 4 pm to 5 pm, online. Zoom link to join: https://uni-augsburg.zoom-x.de/j/62502775254?pwd=cvA90tZ2Ay3B4hvWoheGrbgZ0QTm2a.1 Pass code: m^k?k6

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