Global Climate dynamics
(Master Module P4)
Lecturers: Johannes Quaas (Lectures)
Jan Kretzschmar (Exercises)
Location: Bjerknes auditorium, Stephanstr. 3
Lectures will be online-only for 9 April – 7 May and 28 May – 11 June
https://uni-leipzig.zoom-x.de/my/jquaas
Time: Wednesday 10.15 – 11.45 h (Lectures)
Wednesday 12.00 – 13.30 h (Exercises)
Start: Wednesday 9 April 2025 (Lectures)
Wednesday 16 April 2025 (Exercises)
Topics: Atmospheric and oceanic large-scale circulation, energy cycles,
Coupling of energy and water cycles, climate feedbacks, physics of climate change
Module exam: Oral exams (30 min.; individual appointments 7 – 10 July)
Moodle: https://moodle2.uni-leipzig.de/course/view.php?id=48569
Literature: Peixoto and Oort, Physics of Climate, Springer, 2007, 564pp.
Holton, An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004, 535pp.
Emanuel, Atmospheric Convection, Oxford University Press, 1994, 492pp.
- Trainer/in: Karoline Block
- Trainer/in: Alice Henkes
- Trainer/in: Jan Kretzschmar
- Trainer/in: Hao Luo
- Trainer/in: Johannes Quaas