Geo- and Planetary Physics ll

• explain the basic features of the components of Earth’s climate system and their role in climate
• describe the basic composition, structure and circulation of the planetary atmospheres, including solar heating, greenhouse effect and albedo, and calculate the basic physical parameters
• describe theories for the development of planetary atmospheres and calculate the basic physical parameters
• describe the magnetospheres of the planets
• describe the evolution of climate on Earth, Mars and Venus
• use simple models to describe the interactions between the atmosphere, ocean, ice sheets, geosphere and biosphere
• explain methods for Earth observation and exploration of the solar system
• describe geodetic coordinate and time systems, and use Kepler elements to describe the orbits of planets and satellites
• calculate key geodetic/geophysical parameters from simple examples
• evaluate figures/graphs of key geodetic/geophysical parameters related to positions from GNSS, satellite surface temperatures, ocean dynamics and ice mass change.

Part 1: The evolution of the planets’ atmospheres, atmospheric dynamics and properties, energy currents in the atmosphere, the planets’ climate system and climate development, the future climate on Earth, the planets’ magnetospheres, and

Part 2: Satellite geodesy for observing changes from satellites.

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Lectures and exercises.

The course deals with topics relevant to several of UN’s Sustainable Development Goal e.g. SDG 13 Climate Action