Lecture

Lecture, 2 cred.h, ECTS studies, ECTS credits: 5
language of lecture is English
Time and place: Thu 9:15 - 10:45, WHS1/Geb.8A - R.101 [GEOMAR Konf.R. Geb.8A (Ost)]
from 17.4.2025 to 10.7.2025

Fields of study

WPFL ClimPhys-MSc 2
WPFL ClimPhys-MSc 4

Prerequisites / Organisational information

formerly module klim-302
every two years in summer semester: "Part 2: Regional Climate Variability"

direct link to OLAT course
Mandantory registration to the OLAT Course!

Prerequisits for Admission to the Examination:
Work on written exercises, demonstration of exercise solution in tutorials. Compulsory attendance of practical exercise.

Contents

Short Summary:
Advanced Physical Climate focusses on regional modes of climate variability, their diagnostics, impacts and predictability, on climate feedback mechanisms and the IPCC process.

Course Content:
Advanced aspects of the Physical Climate System will be addressed by lectures and practical application. The following topics will be covered:
North Atlantic Oscillation, Great Salinity Anomaly, Tropical Atlantic Variability, Monsoon Dynamics (MJO), Regional Impacts of Climate Change, Ice-Albedo Feedback, Cloud/Water Vapor - Radiation Feedback, Wind – SST (Bjerkness) Feedback, MOC – Sea-Ice Feedback, Vegetation – Radiation Feedback, Ocean ventilation – CO2, Biogeochemical Cycles
In addition the IPCC process and content of the report will be studied.

Learning Outcomes:
Students will become familiar with the basic regional modes of physical climate variability with a focus on the ocean and atmosphere and their interaction with an emphasis on interannual to centennial time scales. They will learn about climatic impacts on human activity and obtain a basic understanding of the IPCC process. Moreover, they will understand the underlying positive and negative feedbacks of the climate system and how they can be simulated in models. They will be able to make use of mathematical methods needed to solve physical problems in climate dynamics with a particular focus on advanced statistical data analysis and simple models.

Recommended literature

Kump, L.R., J.F. Kastings, and R.G. Crane: The Earth System. Prentice Hall, 1999, 351pp.
Hartmann, D.L. Global Physical Climatology. Academic Press, 1994, 408pp.
IPPC Volume I „The Scientific Basis“, 2013, pp

Assigned lectures

PRUE: climAPCREGION-01a: Regional Climate Variability (Exercises) (500018): Lecturer: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Florian Schütte
Time and place: every 2. week Fri 13:00 - 14:30, WHS1/Geb.8A - R.208 [SeminarR. Geb.8A (Ost)]; comments on time and place: Alle zwei Wochen



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