Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
The course focused on explaining the main external forcing mechanisms such as the sun, volcanoes, and changes in greenhouse gases and aerosols, which can contribute to changing the global energy budget. It explored the important role of internal feedback mechanisms and the energy transport in the atmosphere and ocean, in order to explain regional variations in climate. Providing in-depth understanding of the climate system, it also compared man-made climate changes to past natural changes.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Asgeir Sorteberg
Professor of atmospheric dynamics
University of Bergen
Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu
Professor of climate dynamics
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on the complexities of the climate system, and be able to put the recently observed, man-made changes in climate in the context of past natural changes.
- Explain the underlying physical processes governing climate variations in the past, present and future.
- Describe the role of atmosphere and ocean energy transport and their impact on regional variations in climate.
- Summarise the main feedback mechanisms in the climate system.
- Describe the role of ocean heat uptake for the timescales of response to changes in climate forcing.
Syllabus
- Radiative forcing
- Climate feedbacks and heat transport
- Past changes in climate and ocean heat uptake
Issued on 18th February 2024
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