| date: | 2014 January 20 (Mon) 13:20--21(Tue)15:00 |
| room: | CPS Conference Room |
| speaker: | Seita Emori (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) |
| organizer: | Takahiro Iwayama |
| title: | Intense course of lectures |
| abstract: |
1. An overview of the climate change issues 2. Projection of climate change and its reliability 3. The climate change issues and skepticism against them 4. Climate change risk management Audiences are expected to be triggered to understand the issues of the climate change (the global warming) comprehensively from both of scientific and sociological aspects and think of them by themselves. Especially, the methods for, the difficulties in, and the social roles of projecting future climate changes by the use of numerical simulations based on earth sciences such as meteorology, oceanography and hydrology will be described to promote proactive considerations by the audiences. |
| keywords: | earth environmental system, basics of climate change prediction, global warming |