Questions to student:

What is the general approach in modelling climate change ?
What can regional models bring as added value for climate change ?
How to deal with uncertainties in climate change simulations ?

Statistical downscaling: basic hypothesis and weakness ?
Should we expect a strong relationship between large-scale
circulation regimes and local climate ?

Climate extremes: how to define them ? how to characterize them ?

Strong precipitation events: how are they expected to change in the future ?
what might be the consequences and impacts ?

How useful is an aqua-planet model in understanding the large-scale
atmospheric circulation of the Earth ?

