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); - The main types of climates and the corresponding vegetation; - 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 and the corresponding vegetation,
- 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
Document reading and analysis
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Lecture: 24h
Recommended or required readings
- Lecture Notes - Baldocchi, 2007, Bioclimatology, http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/espm129 - IPCC Reports, http://www.ipcc.ch/
Any session :
- In-person
oral exam
- Remote
oral exam
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
Code Yellow: Oral examination
Code Orange: Individualized oral exam
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