Blanca Ausin Gonzalez: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2016 |
Name | Dr. Blanca Ausin Gonzalez |
Department | Earth Sciences |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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651-4057-00L | Climate History and Palaeoclimatology | 3 credits | 2G | S. Bernasconi, B. Ausin Gonzalez, A. Fernandez Bremer, A. Gilli | |
Abstract | The course "Climate history and paleoclimatology gives an overview on climate through geological time and it provides insight into methods and tools used in paleoclimate research. | ||||
Objective | The student will have an understanding of evolution of climate and its major forcing factors -orbital, atmosphere chemistry, tectonics- through geological time. He or she will understand interaction between life and climate and he or she will be familiar with the use of most common geochemical climate "proxies", he or she will be able to evaluate quality of marine and terrestrial sedimentary paleoclimate archives. The student will be able to estimate rates of changes in climate history and to recognize feedbacks between the biosphere and climate. | ||||
Content | Climate system and earth history - climate forcing factors and feedback mechanisms of the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. Geological time, stratigraphy, geological archives, climate archives, paleoclimate proxies Climate through geological time: "lessons from the past" Cretaceous greenhouse climate The Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) Cenozoic Cooling Onset and Intensification of Southern Hemisphere Glaciation Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Pliocene warmth Glacial and Interglacials Millennial-scale climate variability during glaciations The last deglaciation(s) The Younger Dryas Holocene climate - climate and societies |