CLIMATE MODELS
MODELLI CLIMATICI
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2023/2024 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Enrico Mancinelli |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide a scientific understanding of climate models, highlighting their
potential and critical issues, without going into numerical details.
Areas where further research advances are needed in order to be able to include/change the
appropriate parameterisations in climate models will be outlined.
The forecasts produced by climate models for the coming decades and their statistical reliability
will be discussed.
Finally, possible local and global actions
Program
Climate model equations and solution methods.
Constraints, criticalities and capabilities of climate models.
Evolution of climate models.
Components of the climate system simulated in a climate model.
IPCC.
Introduction to impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
Bridging Courses
None
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and insight: students demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of climatological modelling.
Applying knowledge and insight: students evaluate the modelling chain, climate scenarios and possible mitigation and adaptation actions to climate change through knowledge and insight acquired during the course.
Judgement: students critically evaluate information and draw conclusions considering limits and potential of climatological modelling.
Communication: students communicate concepts using specific vocabulary
Learning skills: students are able to analyse and acquire technical-scientific information relating to the topics of the course.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures
- Attendance
Not mandatory
- Course books
Washington, W. M., & Parkinson, C. (2005). Introduction to three-dimensional climate modeling - Second edition. University science books.
- Assessment
Oral exam
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
I will provide teaching materials to non-attending students
- Attendance
Not mandatory
- Course books
Washington, W. M., & Parkinson, C. (2005). Introduction to three-dimensional climate modeling - Second edition. University science books.
- Assessment
Oral exam
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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