Program:

1. Introduction to the main exchanges between the continental biosphere and the climate system

2. Global CO2 cycle : from past to future (part 1)

3. Global CO2 cycle : from past to future (part 2)

4. Analysis of climate and land variables, and surface-atmosphere fluxes [practice with R, or excel, or any other tool ]

5. Simulation of a climate negociation

6. Present and future global nitrogen cycle

7. Carbon and nitrogen balance : a case study of an agricultural site