Learning Goals

Students will have acquired basic knowledge of urban and terrain climatology. - The students have acquired basic knowledge of the area water balance and the balancing of water balance variables.

Contents

• Dynamic processes in the climate system
• Clouds and aerosols
• The role of the ocean in the climate system
• Climate change and climate modeling
• Urban and terrain climatology
• Climatological remote sensing
• Physicochemical properties of water
• Precipitation (precipitation formation, precipitation types, measurement)
• Groundwater: storage and movement
• Soil water: potential concept and soil water fluxes
• Evaporation: physics and calculation formulas
• Water balance sheets
• Runoff formation and hydrograph analysis (characteristics, high water, low water)
• Fluvial sediment transport

Teaching methods

Seminar

Mode of assessment

2 exams

Additional Information

Conditions for granting credit points

Minimum of 50 percentage points; regular and active participation in the seminar sessions (max. three absences)

Usage of the module
Compulsory module in the specialization Urban and Landscape Ecology in the M.Sc.-Geography program; compulsory elective module for other Master's students of Geography (M.Sc.).

Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote
The module grade is CP-weighted and is included in the final M.Sc. grade.