A voyage in climate, hydrology and life on a 4.5-billion-years old planet
D. Koutsoyiannis, A voyage in climate, hydrology and life on a 4.5-billion-years old planet, Self-organized lecture, doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.27000.26883, School of Civil Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 20 July 2020.
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- Prologue (connection with my previous talk…)
- Introduction: My wandering in climate and hydrology
- Weather and climate: Definitions, meaning and historical background
- Climate of the past
- Climate of the present
- Basics of climate theory and the spring of change
- The energy cycle
- The carbon cycle
- The hydrological cycle and its alleged intensification
- The alleged intensification of hydrological extremes
- Dealing with the future of climate and water
- Epilogue (full of optimism…)
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Remarks:
Video 1 (First section of the talk, beginning to Part 5; in Greek, 1 h 35 min)
Video 2 (Second section of the talk, Part 6 to end; in Greek, 1 h 4 min)
Video 3 (Discussion, in Greek, 1 h 50 min)
(Thanks to KG for the processing of a first version of the videos)
Our works that reference this work:
| 1. | D. Koutsoyiannis, Stochastics of Hydroclimatic Extremes - A Cool Look at Risk, Edition 4, ISBN: 978-618-85370-0-2, 400 pages, doi:10.57713/kallipos-1, Kallipos Open Academic Editions, Athens, 2024. |
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