Global Environmental Change (Introduction to Global Warming)

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Key Features

[Global Environmental Change (Introduction to Global Warming)](https://ocw.nagoya-u.jp/files/299/kai tips2_kai.pdf)

Course Schedule

Session	Contents	Teacher
1	Guidance	Professor Kenji KAI
Mechanisms of global warming
2	Mechanisms of global warming	Professor Hiroshi KANZAWA
3	Greenhouse gases and aerosols	Associate Professor Kazuo OSADA
4	Paleoclimate(Climates of the past)	Professor Takeshi NAKATSUKA
5	Reconstruction of the past climate and prediction of the future climate	Associate Professor Kengo SUDO
Impact to natural environment
6	Climatic change of precipitation	Professor Kenji NAKAMURA
7	Climatic change of the oceans	Professor Takeshi NAKATSUKA
8	Climatic change of glaciers	Associate Professor Koji FUJITA
Impact to ecological system and society
9	Impact to vegetation	Associate Professor Tomoomi KUMAGAI
10	Impact to agriculture	Professor Tsugihiro WATANABE*
11	Impact to water resources	Professor Makoto TANIGUCHI*
Countermeasure against global warming
12	Architecture harmonized with the environment	Professor Masaya OKUMIYA
13	Downscaling simulations of global/urban warming	Associate Professor Satoru IIZUKA
14	Climate policy and future perspective	Professor Tsuneo TAKEUCHI
15	Summary	Professor Kenji KAI

*Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Grading

The grading will be based on attendance (20%) and four reports (20%x4=80%)

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