subject

Biogeochemical processes

lecturers

Dr. Ács Ferenc, associate professor

credits

2+0=2

period

4

curriculum

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.

literature

Gordon B., 2002: Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 690 p.

form of tuition

lectures

mode of assessment

oral exam, reporting