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Risultati d'apprendimento previsti/Expected
learning outcomes |
This course introduces you to:
• The meaning of climate in a broad time scale perspective
• the role of different factors in regulating the climate
• what is climate change
• the different tools and approaches to study climate change
• the effect of climate change on forests and ecosystems
Placing climate change in the correct time-scale prospect.
Understand the causes and consequences of actual and past climate changes
Understand the consequences of climate change at forest ecosystem level
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Propedeuticità
consigliate/Prerequisites |
| No prerequisites are requested (attendance to the course of Ecology is advisable) |
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Programma/Programme |
1. The atmosphere
2. Long-tern cycles
3. Short-term cycles
4. Climate forcing
5. Proxi data
6. Tree-rings
7. Tree rings and climate
8. Forest disturbances
9. Forest disturbances and tree-rings
10. Recent climate change
11. Climate change effects
The climate system:
i) the athmoshere, structure, composition, dynamics;
ii) the other components
Causes of climate change:
i) external and internal mechanisms;
ii) time scales of changes
Defining the climate:
i) instrumental vs proxi data;
ii) Measurements vs reconstructions
Tracking the changes: i) paleo and contemporary climate changes; ii) climate models and future changes
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Modalità di erogazione e organizzazione della didattica/Teaching
organization |
| Lezioni frontali, laboratorio, esercitazioni: 32 ore. |
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Metodi di valutazione/Examination
methods |
La verifica di profitto si svolge con le seguenti modalità: orale, esercitazioni e seminari in aula e in campo.
Non sono previsti accertamenti in itinere. |
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Testi di riferimento/References |
William F. Ruddiman: Earth's Climate: Past and Future. W.H. Freeman, 2007.
Joe Buchdahl: Global Climate Change Student Guide. Pdf copy freely available, 1999.
A selection of papers from scientific journals
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Eventuali supporti alla didattica/Additional
teaching tools |
| Non sono previsti supporti alla didattica. |
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Lingua di insegnamento/Teaching
language |
| Inglese |
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Modalità della frequenza/Classes
attendance |
| Consigliata |
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Dati statistici relativi alle votazioni d'esame/Statical
data on final examination |
| I dati statistici relativi alle votazioni d’esame sono presenti come valore aggregato nelle informazioni del corso di laurea. |
