Department of Physics

10ΕΚ303 Climate - Climate Change

Course webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS238

Course outline

Course content

• General atmospheric circulation.
• Planetary energy budget. Water balance. Hydrological cycle. Carbon cycle.
• Climate categorization.
• The greenhouse gases and air particles: Sources and their role.
• The atmosphere and the climate system. Chemical and physical processes related with the balance of the four cycles (radiation balance, water vapour balance, energy balance, atmospheric motion).
• Natural variability of the atmosphere and oceans. Anthropogenic changes.
• Mechanisms and time of atmosphere-ocean-land interaction. Climatic Climatic coercion.
• Potential of global warming.
• Basic equations of climate simulations. Initial and boundary conditions. Feedback mechanisms.