SUBJECT
Title
Biogeochemical processes
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 4
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Earth, biosphere, antroposphere, physical climate, chemical climate, their interrelationship, equilibrium state, water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphor and sulphur cycles, climate change, non-equilibrium state, positive, negative feedbacks, earth system models, dynamic global vegetation models, global circulation models, land surface processes in the dynamic global vegetation models, water transport, carbon transport.
Readings
Gordon B., 2002: Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 690 p.