Study Programmes 2015-2016
CLIM0018-1  
Urban climatology
Duration :
20h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits :
Master in geography : climatology (120 ECTS)3
Lecturer :
Michel Erpicum
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
The course is organized in 5 lessons of 3 hours in  interaction with the students on different specific themes and complementary(additional) directly bound to the city and/or to its suburbs zone. 
Courses have systematically focused on Powerpoint supports developed by geographers-climatologists with international fame.
The city-campaign climatical contrasts, the urban heat islands, the radiative urban aspects, the urban air quality, the roughnesses, the ventilation, verdurisations, the densities and city organizations of cities with very different sizes and from very different regions are systematically envisaged and confronted with their inferred climate change.
 
 
Learning outcomes of the course :
eng
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
eng
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eng
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Recommended or required readings :
eng
Assessment methods and criteria :
eng
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