Climatology and Climate Change

Code:

LTAM15

Sigla:

CAC

Áreas Científicas
Classificação	Área Científica
OFICIAL	Termodinâmica Aplicda

Ocorrência: 2023/2024 - 1S

Ativa?	Yes
Unidade Responsável:	Departamento de Sistemas e Informática
Curso/CE Responsável:	Environmental and Marine Technology

Ciclos de Estudo/Cursos

Sigla	Nº de Estudantes	Plano de Estudos	Anos Curriculares	Créditos UCN	Créditos ECTS	Horas de Contacto	Horas Totais
LTAM	37	Plano de Estudos 2016/17	2	-	6	75	162

Docência - Responsabilidades

Docente	Responsabilidade
Margarida Maria Correia Alves Lopes

Docência - Horas

Theorethical and Practical :	3,00
Practical and Laboratory:	2,00

Type	Docente	Turmas	Horas
Theorethical and Practical	Totais	1	3,00
Theorethical and Practical	Margarida Maria Correia Alves Lopes		3,00
Practical and Laboratory	Totais	2	4,00
Practical and Laboratory	Margarida Maria Correia Alves Lopes		4,00

Língua de trabalho

Portuguese

Objetivos

Acquire knowledge, skills and competences that allow students to understand climatic parameters and the factors that explain them, in their dynamics, interfere with human actions and vice versa, particularly in terrestrial and maritime biotic responses.

Acquire knowledge about anthropogenic action in climate change, since the pre-industrial era, analyzing the observed trends in climate variations up to the present, as well as future projections.

Analyze the different impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change in society - integration of the phenomena of acid deposition, greenhouse effect, depletion of the ozone layer, and urban heat island with the atmosphere and the climate system.

Resultados de aprendizagem e competências

- Know and understand the physical laws of radiation transfer in the atmosphere.
- Identify the main constituents of the atmosphere and situations of natural imbalance.
- Integrate the thermodynamics and statics of the atmosphere with the ability to disperse the atmosphere.
- Know and understand the physical laws that govern the dynamics of the atmosphere and their applications.
- Understand and know how to make a hydrological balance (global, regional or local).
- Know how to interpret and analyze precipitation data.
- Understand the Ocean-Atmosphere coupling - Assess the importance of the atmosphere for the variability of the climate system.
- Understand the Greenhouse Effect, Radiative Forcing and Climate Response.
- Interpret climate models and the various scenarios considered.

Modo de trabalho

Presencial

Pré-requisitos (conhecimentos prévios) e co-requisitos (conhecimentos simultâneos)

Mathematics and Physics

Programa

1. Climate
Climate parameters. Climate normal. Climate Classifications.

2. The atmosphere, Oceans and Climate System
Global circulation of the atmosphere. Air masses, fronts, depressions and anticyclones. Surface circulation in the oceans.

3. Transfer of radiation in the atmosphere
Absorption and emission of electromagnetic radiation.

4 System Climate Dynamics
Radiative balance of the earth. Greenhouse effect.

5. Radiative Forcing
Carbon balance. IPCC reports.

6. Slow variability in the climate system
Circulation systems at mid-latitudes and tropics.

7. Environmental Responses and Impacts
Responses of terrestrial and marine environment
Adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Impacts on diverse activities.

8. Projections of future climate
Climate simulation. Extreme events.

Bibliografia Obrigatória

Vários; Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, 2021 (Available at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#FullReport)
Vários; IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, IPCC, 2014. ISBN: 978-92-9169-143-2
Stull, Roland ; Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers, University of British Columbia, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-88865-178-5 (Available at http://www.eos.ubc.ca/books/Practical_Meteorology/)
Miranda, P. M.A; Meteorologia e Ambiente, Universidade Aberta, 2001. ISBN: 9789726746553
Ahrens, C. D; Meteorology Today,, Brooks/Cole, 2013. ISBN: 978-0840054999

Bibliografia Complementar

Holton, R. Jame and Hakim, Gregory J; An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Elsevier, 2013. ISBN: ISBN 978-0-12-384866-6
Jacobson, M. Z.; Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling, Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-521-54865-6
Strahler, A. H.; Introducing Physical Geography, Wiley, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-118-39620-9

Observações Bibliográficas

IPCC assessment reports are availabe at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/

Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem

Theoretical-Practical Classes: Theoretical exposition of the subject, followed by problem solving that facilitate the understanding of the subject and its application.

Practical-Laboratory Classes: Carrying out work on the analysis of climate data and the concentration of greenhouse gases.

Laboratory works complement the concepts introduced in theoretical/practical classes, by analyzing real data. Test reports are mandatory. The work is carried out in groups, which allows the acquisition of skills in collaborative work, communication and leadership.

Resources: Moodle platform, in which the most important activities are: Repository of study materials, discussion forums, delivery of laboratory work, tests and exams, dissemination of evaluation results.

Tipo de avaliação

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Componentes de Avaliação

Designation	Peso (%)
Teste	70,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	100,00

Componentes de Ocupação

Designation	Tempo (Horas)
Estudo autónomo	87,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	162,00

Obtenção de frequência

Attendance of 80% of laboratory classes is an essential condition for continuous assessment.

Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final

Assessment distributed over three tests, T1, T2 and T3, (30 to 40 minutes) in person to be carried out on the Moodle platform during class time or at a time to be agreed with the teacher.

- T is thearithmetic mean of the tests, minimum score of 10; the minimum grade for each test is 8 values

- LW is the arithmetic mean of laboratory work, minimum grade of 10; the minimum grade for each report is 8 values

If the student does not obtain a grade in the Tests (T), or wants to improve his grade, he must take the exam, with a minimum grade of 10 values. The exam will be held on the Moodle platform.

Final grade will be:
FG = 30% (LW) + 70% (T or E)

The approval in the laboratory in the current academic year is only carried over to the following year if the final test grade is at least 6 values.

Avaliação especial (TE, DA, ...)

Students with special statutes must inform the RUC until 2023.10.31 in order to agree on a plan for attendance/follow-up of laboratory classes to allow the applicaon of the UC assessment rules.

Observações

- Attendance to laboratory activities is mandatory. In case of impossibility to be present, the student must contact the Teacher in advance;

- The laboratory work reports might be returned to the group for improvement, if they have not reached the minimum grade;

- Students who do not have all the reports approved during the continuous assessment period have the possibility to deliver the reports not accepted until the date of exam (normal period);

- If the student does not obtain the minimum grade in one of the tests, he/she can recover that test on dates at the end of the semester, agreed with the Teacher, or on the date defined by the Pedagogical Council for the evaluation of the normal period.

- The weekly schedule for answering doubts/questions will be published on the UC page in Moodle.

- In tests/exam only non-programmable scientific calculator and the Form and Tables provided.

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