Teacher(s)
Language
French
Content
The course focuses on climate and its changes:
- The radiative balance
- The causes and variations of climate
- The traces and lessons of the past
- Recent climate change, its sources
- Multiple and spatially heterogeneous effects
- Mitigating and adapting to climate change
Teaching methods
The course is organized into 2 learning activities: (1) lectures and (2) readings of scientific articles.
Evaluation methods
The learning outcomes are:
- Understand the main characteristics of the physics of the climate system
- Understand the causes and effects of climate change
- To put into perspective the contemporary scientific debates in the field
- Know how to conduct a scientific reasoning based on the contents of the theoretical course
Online resources
The teaching materials will be available on Moodle
Bibliography
Global Physical Climatology. D.L. Hartmann, Elsevier 2016;
Climats, Passé, présent, futur. M.-A. Mêlières & C. Maréchal, Belin 2020;
Climate and the Oceans. G.K. Vallis, Princeton Primers in Climate 2011.
Climats, Passé, présent, futur. M.-A. Mêlières & C. Maréchal, Belin 2020;
Climate and the Oceans. G.K. Vallis, Princeton Primers in Climate 2011.
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