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| PHYS3010-2 | Introduction to Bioclimatology
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Marc Aubinet |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| - General mechanisms of global climate (radiation, convection, terrestrial rotation, oceanic movements);
- Global climate typology;
- Climate Change (Analysis tools, IPCC report, Causes and mechanisms, Global CO2 budget, Other GHG budgets, Feedbacks); |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| - Identify and understand the basic mechanisms responsibles of main climatic processes at local and global scales,
- Describe the main types of climates,
- Understand the causes of climate change and its impact on vegetal and human environment.
- Soft skills : be able to extract from an ensemble of scientific information (texts, tables, graphs) the relevant information allowing to answer to specific questions. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Courses of First and secon years undergraduate |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lecture: 24h |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| - Lecture Notes
- Baldocchi, 2007, Bioclimatology, http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/espm129
- IPCC Reports, http://www.ipcc.ch/ |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written evaluation, open herdbook |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Prof. AUBINET Marc
Bât. GE Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Passage des Déportés 2
5030 Gembloux
+32 81 622488
Marc.Aubinet@ulg.ac.be |
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| Items online : |
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| Lecture notes |
| Cf. eCampus |
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