Bioclimatology basis

Duration

24h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Bernard Longdoz

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

- 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);

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- 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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Environmental Physic course (Bloc 3)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Lecture: 24h

Recommended or required readings

- Lecture Notes - Baldocchi, 2007, Bioclimatology, http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/espm129 - IPCC Reports, http://www.ipcc.ch/

Assessment methods and criteria

Written evaluation, open herdbook

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

LONGDOZ Bernard Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Axe Echanges Ecosystèmes Atmosphère 8, Avenue de la Faculté (Bât. 80) 5030 Gembloux
+32 81 622488 Bernard.Longdoz@ulg.ac.be(Marc.Aubinet@ulg.ac.be)