Weather extremes and climate change - Philippe Drobinski
How do weather conditions vary? What are extreme weather events? How do we define weather extremes?
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How do weather conditions vary? What are extreme weather events? How do we define weather extremes?
Why use observation networks to study the atmosphere? Stratospheric ozone - A new global challenge. This concerted worldwide effort is relevant to other climate variables. Other networks being
Climate projections. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) : scenarios, organisation and how it works. IllustratIion on how the connections between the world of scientific research
What is climate variability? An example of weather variation. The butterfly effect. Sensitivity to initial conditions in the chaos theory. Why does the global temperature of the Earth vary? What
How can human activities modify the global climate? How much change in the greenhouse effect is due to human activities? How do human activities change the albedo? How does the temperature of the
What does the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) recommend in terms of emissions for the decades to come? What are our sources of energy? How quickly has the breakdown of these primary
In this short video, we will cover the history of the Earth over its first billions of years, from around 4 billion years to 400 million years ago.
What is the Holocene? What caused this Climate Optimum during the Holocene? How do we know that the African Humid Period occurred during the Holocene Climate Optimum? Were there been other warm
What are the most harmful air pollutants? What are the main impacts of these pollutants on health and the environment? What are the sources of these two major pollutants? What about ozone pollution
What are clouds? How do clouds form? Why does water vapour transform into water droplets? Why do we have columns of rising air or thermals? What about the vertical height of clouds? How do we
Do these vertical exchange fulfil an important role in the atmosphere? What are the precise mechanisms responsible for vertical transport? And what happens in the free troposphere? Where can these
What do we measure in ice cores? The stable isotopes of water to to reconstruct past temperatures. To reconstruct the atmospheric composition of greenhouse gases. Future projects.