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Climate variability and change - NMET501
Title: Proměnlivost a změny klimatu
Guaranteed by: Department of Atmospheric Physics (32-KFA)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: RNDr. Eva Holtanová, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Michal Belda, Ph.D.
Mgr. Jan Karlický, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Michal Belda, Ph.D.
Class: DS, meteorologie a klimatologie
Classification: Physics > Meteorology and Climatology
Annotation -
Climate system and its components; observed climate changes on global and regional scales and their causes; climate sensitivity, feedbacks and internal variability; methods for detecting and attributing climate change. The topics are adapted to the focus of the student's dissertation.
Last update: Mikšovský Jiří, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (18.05.2025)
Aim of the course -

to extend knowledge of greenhouse gases and aerosols effects in climate system

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (30.05.2008)
Course completion requirements - Czech

zápočet: analýza vybraných dat nebo rešerše zadaného tématu; zkouška ústní

Last update: Mikšovský Jiří, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (18.05.2025)
Literature - Czech

Kiehl, J.T., Ramanathan, V.: Frontiers of Climate Modeling. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of WorkingGroup I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC. Solomon,S.D. et al., Cambridge University Press,2007.

Bigg, G.R.: The Oceans and Climate. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Aktuální časopisecká literatura, zprávy výzkumných projektů

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (30.05.2008)
Teaching methods - Czech

výuka probíhá kombinací individuálních či skupinových konzultací, důraz kladen na samostatnou práci studenta a studium odborné literatury

Last update: Mikšovský Jiří, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (18.05.2025)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu předmětu.

Last update: Kalvová Jaroslava, doc. RNDr., CSc. (11.10.2017)
Syllabus -

Sources of greenhouse gases and aerosols, concentration trends, global budgets, projections of future emission and concentrations, radiative forcing. Role of the ocean in the climate systém. Coupled climate models (AOGCM), structure of the atmospheric and of the ocean components of the AOGCM, model evaluation, exploitation of the climate models, control runs, historic and experimental runs, ensembles, GCM's validations, projections of the future climate change, sources of uncertainty. Regional climate information, principles of deriving regional information, regional climate models, statistical downscaling (linear and nonlinear approaches), weather generators. Natural climate variability, human-induced climate variations, observed climate variability and change.

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (30.05.2008)
 
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