B6479 - SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Anno Accademico 2024/2025

  • Docente: Alberto Montanari
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: ICAR/02
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Moduli: Alberto Montanari (Modulo 1) Alessio Domeneghetti (Modulo 2) Mattia Neri (Modulo 3)
  • Modalità didattica: In presenza e a distanza - Blended Learning (Modulo 1) Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 2) Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 3)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Civil Engineering (cod. 8895)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Students will learn what knowledge is needed to identify solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation. They will learn how climate change can be mitigated, how adaptation may be carried out and how mitigation and adaptation interact each other. Students will learn what we know and what we still do not know about climate and climate change. They will also know what contribution they can give to resolve the climate challenge in both their roles of citizens and experts. The involved disciplines are: climate dynamics, climate analysis and modelling, geo-environmental sciences and water cycle, climate engineering and environmental engineering. The approach will be interdisciplinary with the aim to move to transdisciplinarity, namely, by setting the basis for an innovative scientific and technical approach.

Contenuti

Please note: the course is scheduled in the second semester, with timetable to be defined.

Lectures are given in presence, videos of the lectures will be made available. Physical attendance to lectures is not required. Exam is in presence only.

The course is highly popular. Only the first 200 students who include the course in their study plan will be admitted.

The course will deliver interdisciplinary information on the following topics:

  • Climate history: observed data, proxy data, climatic variability (glaciations, solar activity, climate cycles).

  • Advanced techniques for environmental monitoring.

  • Climate physics and modeling.

  • Modeling of climate related processes: water cycle and natural hazards.

  • Energy transition.

  • Climate change and energy.

  • Solutions for climate change mitigation.

  • Solutions for climate change adaptation.

  • Climate analysis with open data and open software.

Testi/Bibliografia

Supporting documents will be distributed in the form of open access scientific papers and lecture notes (see, for instance, https://www.albertomontanari.it/index.php/node/215).

Metodi didattici

Teaching methods will include frontal lectures, exercises, and interactive discussions.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

There will not be interim assessment. The final assessment will be made through an online quiz. Grades will be assigned out of 30.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Lectures will be delivered with the physical presence of the teacher and will also be made available via online streaming. Videos of the last year's lectures is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqU6hAusl3o&list=PLzpKSIoIBFCOUtN2yuUxLXL1M-GRUPagq&pp=iAQB

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Alberto Montanari

Consulta il sito web di Alessio Domeneghetti

Consulta il sito web di Mattia Neri