Description

CU Alpha focuses on the Earth system and its interactions with the natural ecosystems as well as human life and aims to identify novel sustainable development models to adapt and mitigate climate change. The impacts and risks of climate change, including extreme events, will also be investigated. The candidates will study key processes and scale interactions related to the atmosphere, oceans, the land surface and the sub-surface, and the cryosphere which determine the Earth’s climate. Moreover the CU studies the impacts of climate change on the structure, function and health of the biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems and evaluates the human health risks.

Key topics

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Climate and paleo-climate

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Environmental risks and impacts

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Physical and chemical processes and risks

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Advance modelling

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Greenhouse gas emissions

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Ecosystem and human health

Mission & Vision

The PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate Change combines the skills of the best Italian universities, creating an interuniversity and multidisciplinary educational roadmap.

An original PhD program that combines the experience and knowledge of professors from different fields of study with the skills of the students. The final aim is to define tools and methods to promote the ability of future generations to understand the evolution of the climate, as well as to design and implement new solutions for a sustainable society in all its aspects.

We want to instill knowledge and bring forth talents capable of contributing, with their own ideas, to the creation of a just and innovative society, in total harmony with the planet.

Courses

Introduction to Meteorology and Climatology

Planetary Health and the Human exposure

Numerical modeling of weather and climate

Focus on climate and meteorological models, introducing specific relevant topics for the different types of models, including parameterizations, initial and boundary conditions and ensemble modelling.

Tropical meteorology and climate

Examine tropical atmospheric circulations that induce variations in tropical weather and climate from daily to climatic timescales, starting from the large-scale energy balance and moving down to cumulus convection.

Climate Change impacts on mountainenvironment and ecosystems

Introduction to diversity, morphology,and taxonomy of freshwater copepods:theory and training activity

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CURRICULUM Alpha