PřF:IC094 Snow in a changing environment

IC094 Snow in a changing environment: Interactions with climate and ecosystems

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2013

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 1 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Dr. Florent Domine (lecturer), prof. RNDr. Petr Klán, Ph.D. (deputy)

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Prerequisites

chemistry, environmental sciences

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

In the end of this course, the student will be able to understand how snow and ice interact with climate and ecosystems.

Syllabus

1. The role and impact of snow on ecosystems and climate.
2. How climate determines the physical properties of snow.
3. Snow and ecosystems: how different vegetation types and snow interact.
4. Snow – climate - ecosystems interactions.
5. Snow and permafrost.
6. Can snow, vegetation and climate form a feedback loop?
7. Climate change: how much will snow-climate feedbacks accelerate global warming?

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Attendance and, in the case of colloquium, working out of class assignment.

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.

Teacher's information

https://sites.google.com/site/florentdomine/home