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Climate Change 4030-CC

Academic year: 2020/2021
Semester: winter

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

The outline of the course is as follows:

1) Climate vs. weather. Climate system: components and parameters. Climate measurements and observations.

2) Energy balance of planet Earth. Solar constant, planetary albedo, greenhouse effect. Climate forcings and feedbacks.

3) Natural climate forcings and climate changes across geological history of the planet. Anthropocentric climate forcing and actual climate change.

4) Human fingerprints on climate: evidence.

5) Climate modeling: principles, verification, projections. Climate scenarios. Carbon budget.

 

6) IPCC assessment and special reports.

 

During first five meetings (1-5) I will provide a tutorial: 5 two-hour lectureas about physical backgrounds of climate science and global warming. paralellyI wil provide a list of subjects to be actively covered by the students, All participants will  be assigned   (accounting for their topical preferences) to working grouups. The groups will prepare subject presentations, based on IPCC reports and scientific literature. The presentations will be given in the course of the next 6-8 meetings (depending on groups) and discussed by all of us.

In the final few meetings we will collectively summarize the conclusions.

Finally, at the end of the course, every student will wtite an essay on the specific subject related to their interest within the topic of the course.

The final grade will be based on:

  • participation ain presentation (50%)
  • essay (50%)

According yo this year schedule the first meeting will be on Wed, Oct. 21 st.
You will receive invitation to Zoom meeting by e-mail before the meeting.

REFERENCES and readings:

Our course will be based directly on IPCC reports. All relevant reports are available from: https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

We will also refer to some key scientific papers, in most cases published in renowned journals like “Nature”, “Science”, PNAS. “Nature” and Science” publish not only scientific articles, but also discussions and commentaries which are interesting and written in plain language.

Typical press materials are not recommended.

 

COURSES MATERIALS
Lectures / Leader Lecture type

Szymon P. Malinowski

Jan. 20, 2021, 1 p.m.

Essay themes and rules

Lecture documents:
Essay themes and rules - Information for students
Climate-Change-2020-essay-themes.pdf
Lab

Szymon P. Malinowski

Jan. 20, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Social crisis & migration

Lecture documents:
Presentation 06 - Presentation
Group 6 - Project-presentation-migrations and cosial crisis.pptx
Class

Szymon P. Malinowski

Jan. 13, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Sea level change

Lecture documents:
Presentation 05 - Presentation
Sea Level Change.pdf
Class

Szymon P. Malinowski

Jan. 12, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Food and land use

Lecture documents:
Presentation 04 - Presentation
Food and Land Use - Climate Change Presenation (12 Jan 2021).pdf
Class

Szymon P. Malinowski

Dec. 16, 2020, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Presentation 03 - Presentation
Adaptation to Climate Change_Group 3.pdf
Class

Szymon P. Malinowski

Dec. 9, 2020, 12:15 p.m.

Mitigation

Lecture documents:
Presentation 02 - Presentation
Climate Change Group 2 Mitigation.pdf
Class

Szymon P. Malinowski

Dec. 2, 2020, midnight

Studenr presentations - scenarios

Lecture documents:
Final Assignment - Information for students
Climate-Change-presentations-final-assignments - Dokumenty Google.pdf
Example-presentation-scenarios - Presentation
Clima Change - Scenarios.pdf
Presentation - scenarios - group 1 - Presentation
Climate change group 1-1.pdf
- Information for students
Kopia Climate-Change-presentations-final-assignments-updated-1.odt
Class

Szymon P. Malinowski

Nov. 25, 2020, 12:15 p.m.

Climate model incomparison projects, CMIP6

Lecture documents:
Lecture 05 - Presentation
2020-Climate-Sustainability-05.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

Nov. 25, 2020, 12:15 p.m.

Lecture documents:
Presentations- themes and dates - Information for students
Climate-Change-presentations.odt
Lab

Szymon P. Malinowski

Nov. 18, 2020, 12:15 p.m.

History of climate change science & dissemination of findings.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 04 - Presentation
2020-Climate-Sustainability-04.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

Nov. 4, 2020, noon

Paleoclimatology.

A brief history of climate of the Earth.

Carbon cycle.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 03 - Presentation
2020-Climate-Sustainability-03.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

Nov. 2, 2020, midnight

Here is .pdf file with link to google drive location where recorded lectures and classes are available.

Lecture documents:
Recorded lectures and classes - Information for students
Link to the videos.pdf

Szymon P. Malinowski

Oct. 28, 2020, noon

Energy balance. Radiative forcing. Observation systems. Climate models. Ensemble forecasting. Interpretation of numerical forecasts.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 02 - Presentation
2020-Climate-Sustainability-02.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

Oct. 21, 2020, 12:15 p.m.

An overview of climate change problem.

Lecture documents:
Recorded lecture 01 - Information for students
zoom_0.mp4
Lecture 01 - Presentation
2020-Climate-Sustainability-01.pdf
Lecture

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