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Z0151 Climate variability and climate change

Faculty of Science
spring 2012

Extent and Intensity

2/1. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Kolář (seminar tutor)

Supervisor

prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography - Earth Sciences Section - Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of Geography - Earth Sciences Section - Faculty of Science

Timetable

Thu 10:00–11:50 Z2,01032

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

Z0151/01 Thu 12:00–12:50 Z2,01032, P. Kolář

Prerequisites (in Czech)

PROGRAM ( N - GK )

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Physical Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
• Geographical Cartography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, N-GK)

Course objectives

At the end of this course, students should be able: explain climate variability and climate change including their consequences for further develoment of the Earth landscape in the context of the published IPCC documents; apply obtained theoretical knowledge for solution of practical projects on the field of climate variability and change; evaluate methodology of construction of climate scenarios; apply scenarios for the study of climate impacts on the nature, man and human society; apply software AnClim for homogenisation of long-term climatological time series; analyse statistical structure of these series; synthesize knowledge about climate variability and change.

Syllabus

• Lectures: 1. Climate variability and change 2. Quality of climatological data 3. Homogenisation of climatological series 4. Statistical analysis of climatological series I 5. Statistical analysis of climatological series II 6. Climate fluctuations in the instrumental period 7. Climate fluctuations in the historical period 8. Palaeoclimatology 9. Climatic extremes and their impacts 10. Climate-forcing factors I 11. Climate-forcing factors II 12. Climatic scenarios and their creation I 13. Climatic scenarios and their creation II 14. Impacts of climate change Seminars: 1. Software AnClim for analysis of time series 2.-4. Testing of relative homogeneity and adjusting of climatological series 5.-7. Statistical analysis of climatological series 8.-10. IPCC 2007 - physical basis 11.-12. IPCC - impacts of climate change 13. New trends in the study of climate variability and change

Literature

required literature
• Solomon, S., Qin, D., Manning, M., Marquis, M., Averyt, K. Tignor, M. M. B., LeRoy Miller, H., Chen, Z., eds. (2007): Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 996 s.
• Parry, M. L., Canziani, O. F., Palutikof, J. P., van der Linden, P. J., and Hanson, C. E. (Eds.) (2008): Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 986 s.

recommended literature
• HOUGHTON, John. Globální oteplování :úvod do studia změn klimatu a prostředí. Praha: Academia, 1998. 228 s. ISBN 80-200-0636-2. info
• KALVOVÁ, Jaroslava and Bedřich MOLDAN. Klima a jeho změna v důsledku emisí skleníkových plynů. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1996. 161 s. ISBN 80-7184-315-6. info

Teaching methods

theoretical preparation (lectures), independet presentation of IPCC conclusions, homogenisation of selected climatological series and its basic statistical analysis, study of recommended journal articles, panel discussion

Assessment methods

credit - elaboration of class excercises, oral presentations; oral or written exam

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, spring 2012 - acreditation, spring 2013, spring 2014.

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