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Climate physics

Academic year: 2024/2025
Semester: summer

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

1. Basic concepts: climate system, climate processes, weather and climate anomalies

2. Energy balance of the planet. Radiative forcing. Positive and negative feedbacks in the climate system. Climate sensitivity.

3. Greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases.

4.Radiative and radiative-convective equilibrium, heat transport

5. Observational and measurement systems

6. Simple climate model

7. Radiative forcing. Aerosols

8. Clouds in the climate

9. The cryosphere and sealevel

10 Carbon and nitrogen cycles

11. Paleoclimatology

12. Climate modelling

13. Natural climate variability, attribution, perception of climate change

14. History of climate physics

15. IPCC reports

COURSES MATERIALS
Lectures / Leader Lecture type

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 30, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 23, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 09 - Presentation
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-09.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 16, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Aerosols and clouds

Lecture documents:
Lecture 08 - Presentation
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-08.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 9, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Modelowanie klimatu, Coupled Model Incomparison Projests. Projekcje klimatu.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 07 - Presentation
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-07.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 2, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 06 - Presentation
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-06.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 26, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
lecture 05 - Presentation
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-05.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 19, 2025, midnight

Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 12, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 03/04 - Presentation
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-03_04.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 5, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 02
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-02.pdf
Lecture

Szymon P. Malinowski

Feb. 26, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 01 - Presentation
FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-01.pdf
Lecture

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