Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in bioengineering | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
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
Oral examination
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)
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
The course material is that seen during face-to-face courses and that presented in the courses viewed in the form of PPT and podcast
Assessment subjects
Chapter 1 "Variables et échelle spatio-temporelle"
Chapitre 2 "Processus, types de climats et végétation
Chapitre 3 "Changement Climatique"
Assessment methods
Oral examination with open books which will be carried out remotely via the Collaborate tool (the technical information and details of connection as well as the passage schedule will soon be provided to you in a section "Session June 2020" which will be created on eCampus)
You will receive 2 questions, one relating to Chapter 2 "Processes, types of climates and vegetation" and one relating to Chapter 3 "Climate Change". You will have a short period of time to prepare the main elements of your answers which you will then present orally to the examiner. The latter may ask you to add supplements to your answers directly during your oral presentation.
Contacts
Bernard.Longdoz@uliege.be