872332 Paleoclimate for future

Type
Lecture and exercise
Semester hours
2
Lecturer (assistant)
Braumann, Sandra , Formayer, Herbert , Lüthgens, Christopher , Neuhuber, Stephanie
Organisation
Offered in
Sommersemester 2024
Languages of instruction
Deutsch
Content

Since the emergence of the Fridays for Future movement, climate change has finally reached public awareness. The course „Paleoclimate for Future“ expands the concept of climate scenarios by offering an insight into climate change over decades, milleniums, or even millions of years. The course aims at communicating a better understanding of the climate system in general, as well as of interrelations between atmosphere, land masses, and oceans. In addition, climate archives will be introduced, which provide the basic knowledge about climate change on longer timescales. Timing is key in the reception of such information. The tools used for the reconstruction of such geochronologies are dating methods, which make the temporal dimension accessible for paleoclimate- and paleo-environmental reconstruction and therefore provide a key dimension for the interpretation of the rates of climate change.

The course includes the following main topics:

- climate and time

- Energy transport within and between oceans and atmosphere

- Global markers and the geochronological framework

- Temperature reconstruction on different temporal scales

- Reconstruction of atmospheric gases over time

- Quaternary dating methods (especially luminescence dating and cosmogenic nuclide dating)

- Terrestrial archives and applied dating

- Ice core records and glaciers

- Quaternary climate system and man made climate change

- Climate models for future climate assessment
Previous knowledge expected

Geological and meteorological basics welcome.
Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

Successful completion of the seminar enables participants to …

… explain the basic mechanisms which are driving ocean-atmosphere interaction and their direct influence on world climate and their changes over time.

… assess different climate records derived from the earth’s archives, their resolution, their temporal and spatial range and their completeness.

… evaluate and advise on tools available for dating and climate reconstruction.

… compare scientific articles, evaluate them and draw conclusions.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.