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Instructors: Dr. Paul Konopka
Event type:
online: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
08.110.8001
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
The lecture introduces all relevant processes important for understanding of ``climate change''. Starting from the IPCC report (IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fifth Assessment Report), we discuss both the anthropogenic (i.e. caused by human activities) and natural climate change. Terms like greenhouse effect, radiative forcing or climate-coupling will be explained from the physics point of view. The used approximations as well as open questions like the impact of the climate change on the atmospheric dynamics will be discussed. Finally, processes related to the carbon cycle and natural variability of climate will be considered (e.g. Milankowitsch cycles, solar variability, ice ages with their glacial and interglacial variability). In the last third of the lecture climate-ozone interaction as well as geo-engineering will be discussed. In particular, the impact of stratospheric ozone loss (the so-called ozone holes) on climate and the new ideas how to mitigate the impact of climate change will be introduced. The lecture is addressed not only to master students in meteorology but also in other science-oriented disciplines.
Recommended reading list:
D. Archer, Global Warming, 2nd Edition, John Wilay \& Sons, Inc., 2011
D. Archer, The Long Thaw, Princeton University Press, 2009
R. T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetry Climate, Cambridge
University Press, 2010
J. M. Wallace, P. V. Hobbs, Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey, 2006
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, ISBN: 9780521880091
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), Climate Change 2013,
Summary for Policymakers, ISBN 978-92-9169-138-8 G. Walker, Ein Meer von Luft, Berlin Verlag, 2007, ISBN: 9783827005953
Ch. Cockell, R. Corfield, N. Edwards, N. Harris, 2008: An Introduction to the Earth-Life System, Cambridge University Press
Gerd Ganteför, Klima - Der Weltuntergang findet nicht statt, Wiley-VCH Verlag Gmb
Digital teaching:
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