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Global Climate Change: Course Teacher

The document outlines a course on global climate change, covering topics such as the causes and impacts of climate change, responses and adaptation strategies, and the distinction between weather and climate. It emphasizes the importance of studying climate to predict weather patterns and understand the effects on water resources, food security, and human health. The course is taught by Dr. Fahmida Parvin at Jahangirnagar University.

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Global Climate Change: Course Teacher

The document outlines a course on global climate change, covering topics such as the causes and impacts of climate change, responses and adaptation strategies, and the distinction between weather and climate. It emphasizes the importance of studying climate to predict weather patterns and understand the effects on water resources, food security, and human health. The course is taught by Dr. Fahmida Parvin at Jahangirnagar University.

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Global climate change

Course Teacher:
Dr. Fahmida Parvin
Associate professor
Department of Environmental Science
Jahangirnagar University
Email: fahmidaprvn497@juniv.edu
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Jume6GUAAAAJ&hl=en
Research gate ID: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Parvin_Fahmida
Course module outline

1. How and why the climate is changing


• Introduction to Climate Science and Climate Change
• Causes of Climate Change
• Climate Intensification: Floods, Droughts and Cyclones
2. Impacts
of climate change on people and the
environment
• Climate Change and Water Resources, Sea Level Rise
• Climate Change and Food Security, Human Health

3. Reponses and adaptation to climate change


• Climate Change and Forest Management
• Climate Change and Water Resources: Responses and Adaptation
• Principles and Practice of Climate Vulnerability Assessment
• Green energy and Climate Change
• Effective Communications in Climate Change
Why Study Climate?
• predict how much rain the next winter might bring, or how far
sea levels will rise due to warmer sea temperatures.
• Helps to determine the quantity and quality of water available
for human use.
• Determines the severity of droughts, storms, and floods.
• which regions are most likely to be affected by extreme
weather, or which wildlife species are threatened by climate
change. .
• How does climate affect Bangladesh?
Biomes of the World Depend on Climate

4
Biomes of the World: A Function of Climate

WHERE IS
BANGLADESH?

5
Weather vs. Climate

What is Weather?

What is Climate?

Are they the same? How are they related?


How can they be confused?
Climate vs. Weather
Weather
• The actual state of the atmosphere in a period of several
hours up to a few days (in a given place) (Gramelsberger &
Feichter, 2011).
Climate
• A statistical description in terms of the mean and variability
of relevant quantities over a period ranging from months to
thousands or millions of years (IPCC).
• The classical period is 30 years, which are most often
surface variables such as temperature, precipitation, and
wind. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a
statistical description, of the climate system (World
Meteorological Organization (WMO)).
Characteristics of Weather and Climate

• Temperature
• Wind
• Clouds
• Precipitation
• Humidity
• Storms (cyclones!)
Meteorology – the Study of Weather

• Meteorology is usually concerned only with the lowest region


of the atmosphere, the troposphere.

• Weather is influenced not only by vertical, diurnal, and


seasonal variations of atmospheric density and temperature,
and of solar heating, but also by horizontal variations over
Earth’s surface.

• Atmospheric winds and circulation are influenced by Earth’s


rotation, and by surface conditions (i.e. whether land or sea,
topography, and surface temperature).
Climatology – The Study of Weather
Statistics, Patterns, and Trends
• Climatology, the study of climate, differs from meteorology in that
climate is the long-term pattern of temperature, precipitation, wind
patterns, etc. at a particular location, over periods of a year or more,
whereas weather is the current (or very near-term) state of affairs at
the location or region of interest.

• For example, the climate in Antarctica is quite different from that in the
Sahara Desert, or the Amazon river basin.

• The latter two are also quite different from each other, despite being at
nearly the same latitudes on Earth.

• Climate change is currently of practical importance, because of the


known or potential effects of human activity on local, regional, or even
world-wide climates.
Climate is Always
Changing, Always has
Changed

1,000,000 year time scales


Plate tectonics
100,000 year time scales
Orbital variations and glacial
periods
100-10 year time scales
Events like the Little Ice Age
and
Medieval Warm Period
10-5 year time scales
El Niño – La Niña cycles
Other short-term cycles due
to ocean circulation
Which Diagram is Closest to The Shape of
Earth’s Orbit?

A B

C
Earth’s Orbit

The Earth’s orbit is


almost a perfect
circle with slight EARTH
variations every
100,000 and
400,000 years.
100,000 year Time Scales
Energy from the sun

The output of energy from


the sun has been monitored
by satellites for thirty years
and has not increased
during this period of rapid
global warming.
Plate Tectonics Influences Climate
Over Very Long Time Frames
The Long-Term Carbon Cycle

Metamorphis
Volcanoes
m of older
release CO2
Weathering carbonates
Weathering Sedimentati
consumes CO2, releases CO2
consumes on of CO3
carried to sea
CO2
Ocean crust Sediments

CO2 released Continent


at mid-ocean al crust
uc nts
d
bd e

ridges
te
su dim
Se

CO2 carried to
ocean ridges
Asthenosphere
Plate Tectonics

• Plate tectonics affects the climate over a


very long-term scale:
– Climate is also affected by whether the
continents are together or apart.
– When plate tectonic processes lower sea level,
exposed limestone or carbonate rocks
undergo a weathering process releasing CO2
into the atmosphere.
Characteristics of Climate

Climate is affected by a combination of factors from


three different systems:

• Solar System
• Earth System
• Earth’s Dynamics (how planet earth is changing at
a macro scale)
Solar System

The earth’s solar system (sun


and the associated planets,
etc.) have an impact on the
Earth’s System composed of
five components:
Atmosphere (all air)
Hydrosphere (all water)
Biosphere (all living things)
Geosphere (solid portion of
the earth)
Cryosphere (frozen water part
of the earth)
Earth System (Interaction)
Air Ice

Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Geosphere Water Land
Cryosphere

Life
Climate System

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