Climate physics

Academic year: 2024/2025
Semester: summer

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

1. Basic concepts: climate system, climate processes, weather and climate anomalies

2. Energy balance of the planet. Radiative forcing. Positive and negative feedbacks in the climate system. Climate sensitivity.

3. Greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases.

4.Radiative and radiative-convective equilibrium, heat transport

5. Observational and measurement systems

6. Simple climate model

7. Radiative forcing. Aerosols

8. Clouds in the climate

9. The cryosphere and sealevel

10 Carbon and nitrogen cycles

11. Paleoclimatology

12. Climate modelling

13. Natural climate variability, attribution, perception of climate change

14. History of climate physics

15. IPCC reports

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Lecture 13

Szymon P. Malinowski

May 21, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Scenarios, tipping points
Lecture documents:
Lecture 13 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-13.pdf
Exam questions - Information for students Pytania-egz-2025.pdf

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Lecture 12

Szymon P. Malinowski

May 14, 2025, midnight

Carbon zycle
Lecture documents:
Lecture 12 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-12.pdf

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Lecture 11

Szymon P. Malinowski

May 7, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Paleoclimatology
Lecture documents:
Lecture 11 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-11.pdf

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Lecture 10

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 30, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

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Lecture 09

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 23, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 09 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-09.pdf

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Lecture 08

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 16, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Aerosols and clouds
Lecture documents:
Lecture 08 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-08.pdf

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Lecture 07

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 9, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Modelowanie klimatu, Coupled Model Incomparison Projests. Projekcje klimatu.
Lecture documents:
Lecture 07 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-07.pdf

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Lecture 06

Szymon P. Malinowski

April 2, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 06 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-06.pdf

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Lecture 05

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 26, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
lecture 05 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-05.pdf

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Lecture 04

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 19, 2025, midnight

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Lecture 03

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 12, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 03/04 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-03_04.pdf

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Lecture 02

Szymon P. Malinowski

March 5, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 02 FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-02.pdf

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Lecture 01

Szymon P. Malinowski

Feb. 26, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Lecture documents:
Lecture 01 - Presentation FizykaProcesowKlimatycznych-2025-01.pdf

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