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The first aim of these lectures will be to give a brief overview of the physical and dynamical mechanisms which determine Earth’s climate. We will start with the atmospheric radiative transfer and the energy fluxes provided by the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and the oceans.

The course provides an introduction to the physics of living systems.

Many physical phenomena are modeled at a macroscopic level by partial differential equations, in domains as diverse as fluid and solid mechanics,  electromagnetism, general relativity, quantum mechanics or astrophysics. These are mathematical expressions which impose a relation between partial derivatives of one or several multivariable functions. This course is meant as an introduction to numerical methods for the approximation of solutions to partial differential equations.