Unit CLIMATE CHANGE
- Course
- Geosciences for risk and environment management
- Study-unit Code
- A002311
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- Geosciences for environmental sustainability
- Teacher
- Paolina Bongioannini Cerlini
- Teachers
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- Paolina Bongioannini Cerlini
- Hours
- 40 ore - Paolina Bongioannini Cerlini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- FIS/06
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Teaching language is Italian
- Contents
- Survey of the Atmosphere: basic concepts. The Earth-Atmosphere’s system: Components of the Earth-Atmosphere’s System and their role in Climate. General circulation of the Atmosphere and the Ocean: basic concepts and equations. The earth’s Carbon Cycle; Climate Sensitivity, Forcings and Feedbacks. The Paleoclimate. The global energy balance. Atmospheric Composition and the Greenhouse. Climate and and Non- Greenhouse-gases. Global warming. Copernicus Data Store (CDS): how to access and use climate data. Global reanalysis data sets: Era5 reanalysis (ECMWF, European Commission), Simple statistical analysis of climate data.
- Reference texts
- Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics. An Introductory Text by John Marshall R. Alan Plumb, Academic Press, pp 344
Atmospheric Science: an Introductory Survey 2nd edition by John M. Wallace and Peter V. Hobbs Academic Press, pp 504 - Educational objectives
- This course aims to make students acquire skills needed to understand the basic concepts of the components of Earth-Atmosphere system, its climate and processes related to them: chemical composition, mass vertical structure, winds, convection and precipitation, radiation.
The main knowledge and understanding abilities (Dublin descriptor 1) acquired will be:
¦Knowledge of theoretical base of mechanisms ruling climate and climate feedbacks
¦Knowledge of both traditional methods (statistic, numerical simulations) and innovative ways (COPERNICUS CDS) to use climate data
The main skills acquired (Applying knowledge and understanding, Dublin descriptor 2 and Ability of making judgements, Dublin descriptor 3) will be:
¦Ability to choose, apply and combine numerical climate models and data synergically. - Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of theoretical lectures and practical exercises aimed at application in the common course project
- Other information
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an individual oral exam.
The verification of the educational objectives of teaching (exam) provides an oral exam, which will be carried out on the dates set in the Cds examination calendar .
The oral exam consists of an interview of no more than about 30 minutes conducted on the basis of simplified numerical models and the visualization of Copernicus data, aimed at ascertaining:
i) the level of knowledge of the theoretical contents of the course (Dublin descriptor 1);
ii) the level of competence in presenting their knowledge (Dublin descriptor 2);
iii) autonomy of judgment (Dublin descriptor 3).
The oral exam also aims to verify the ability of the student to respond with language properties to the questions proposed by the Commission, to support a dialectical relationship during the interview and to demonstrate logical skills, deductive and synthetic in the exposure (Dublin descriptor 4). The final evaluation will be drawn up by the Commission out of thirty. - Extended program
- Survey of the Atmosphere: Chemical Composition, Mass, The Vertical Structure, Winds, Convection and Precipitation. Radiation: basic concepts. The Earth-Atmosphere’s system: Components of the Earth-Atmosphere’s System and their role in Climate
General circulation of the Atmosphere and the Ocean: basic concepts. Numerical climate models: basic equations. The earth’s Carbon Cycle; Climate Sensitivity, Forcings and Feedbacks
The Paleoclimate: What can the past tell us about the present and future? Past and recent observations. Paleoclimate. Paleotemperatures over the past 70 million years: The d18O record.
The global energy balance. Planetary emission temperature. The atmospheric absorption spectrum. The greenhouse effect: A simple greenhouse model. Atmospheric Composition and the Greenhouse. Climate and and Non- Greenhouse-gases. Global warming.
Copernicus Data Store (CDS): how to access and use climate data. Global reanalysis data sets: Era5 reanalysis (ECMWF, European Commission), Simple statistical analysis of climate data.