KE808: Climate change (5 ECTS)

STADS: 10003301

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.
1st quarter.

Teacher responsible
Email: klr@ifk.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
KE501 – Fundamental chemistry must be passed. KE507 Introductory Environmental Chemistry is recommended.

Course introduction
The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the global climate, to climate changes, and the causes for this, both natural and anthropogenic, and to the modelling and predictions of the global climate.

Expected learning outcome
When the course is passed it is expected that the student can:

1. Explain the most important aspects of changes in the global climate
2. Analyze environmental chemistry problems relevant for the global climate
3. Describe the background and mechanisms of models pertinent to predictions of regional and global climatic change
4. To pass environmental chemistry data in relation to climatic change both orally and in writing to a broad audience

Subject overview
1. Radiation and the energy budget of the Earth.
2. The elements of the Climate
3. How to monitor climatic changes
4. Consequences of global climatic change
5. The causes of climatic change
6. Modelling climatic change
7. Predicting climatic change

Literature

• Burroughs (2001) : Climate Change: a Multidisciplinary Approach, 293 pp.

Syllabus
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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
Oral exam, Danish 7 mark scale, external examiner.

Reexam after 2nd quarter.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

Forelæsninger, antal timer 28.
Eksaminatorietimer/opgaveregning, antal timer 14.
Teoretisk øvelse, antal timer 4.
Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in English, if international students participate. Otherwise the course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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