William Ball: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2016 |
Name | Dr. William Ball |
Address | Inst. f. Atmospheric a. Clim.Sci. Universitätsstr. 16 P 14 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
Telephone | +41 44 632 72 53 |
URL | http://www.maasmedia.co.uk/willball/ |
Department | Environmental Systems Science |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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701-1232-00L | Radiation and Climate Change | 3 credits | 2G | M. Wild, W. Ball | |
Abstract | This lecture focuses on the prominent role of radiation in the energy balance of the Earth and in the context of past and future climate change. | ||||
Objective | The aim of this course is to develop a thorough understanding of the fundamental role of radiation in the context of climate change. | ||||
Content | The course will cover the following topics: Basic radiation laws; sun-earth relations; the sun as driver of climate change (faint sun paradox, Milankovic ice age theory, solar cycles); radiative forcings in the atmosphere: aerosol, water vapour, clouds; radiation balance of the Earth (satellite and surface observations, modeling approaches); anthropogenic perturbation of the Earth radiation balance: greenhouse gases and enhanced greenhouse effect, air pollution and global dimming; radiation-induced feedbacks in the climate system (water vapour feedback, snow albedo feedback); climate model scenarios under various radiative forcings. | ||||
Lecture notes | Slides will be made available, lecture notes for part of the course | ||||
Literature | As announced in the course |