Details

Faculty	Faculty of Science and Medicine
Domain	Geography
Code	UE-SGG.00448
Languages	English
Type of lesson	Lecture Practical work
Level	Master
Semester	SP-2022

Schedules and rooms

Summary schedule	Monday , Cours bloc (Spring semester)
Struct. of the schedule	4 jours à 7 h
Contact's hours	28

Teaching

Responsibles	Hauck Christian Hölzle Martin
Teachers	Hauck Christian Huss Matthias Hölzle Martin
Description	The course focuses on different modelling approaches used in environmental sciences with examples given from real applications to cryosphere problems. Theoretical concepts as well as practical exercises at the computer will be considered in this course.
Training objectives	The development of numerical models is a logical extension of earlier descriptive tools used to analyse the environment such as drawings, classifications and maps. Models should always be seen as a complement to other techiques used in geosciences, and they also provide an important means of testing and evaluating hypotheses. It may be true that the pecularities of mathematical notation and technical methods in modelling form a vocabulary which is difficult to penetrate for some, but we believe that the fundamental basis of modelling is one which, like fieldwork and laboratory experimentation, can be applied by any scientist. In this course we introduce the theoretical concepts of some models, and the students get the chance to work with these models at the computers.
Comments	Limité à 12 étudiants. - - - - Requirement for students from other Swiss universities - - - - The participation to the course and the registration for the exam are conditional to the enrollment as BENEFRI or guest students. At the beginning of the semester at latest : - Students from the universities of Bern and Neuchâtel (BENEFRI) are invited to follow the steps of the procedure described on https://www3.unifr.ch/studies/fr/admission/admission-etudiant-hote/programme-benefri.html in order to be identified as BENEFRI students. - Students from other Swiss universities are invited to follow the procedure described on https://www3.unifr.ch/studies/fr/admission/admission-etudiant-hote/hote-complementaire.html in order to be enrolled as guest students. Below is some information concerning the registration to exams. Please be aware that registration to exams is mandatory and does not automatically happen if you are registered to a class: https://www3.unifr.ch/scimed/en/studies/register.
Softskills	Yes
Off field	Yes
BeNeFri	Yes
Mobility	Yes
UniPop	No
Auditor	Yes

Projet

Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Projet