Outline
This module provides an understanding of environmental processes and driving forces of the climate system through earth history, dealing with geological approaches, climate archives, palaeoecological approaches, proxy records, and modelling approaches. We will characterize climate stages, comprising icehouse stages and greenhouse stages, climate variability at long to short time scales, abrupt climate changes, the role of the global carbon cycle through time and biospheric-geospheric interactions.
The students will understand that earth’s climate dynamics operates at different time scales with different driving processes and feedback loops. They will become familiar with the interpretation of palaeoenvironmental records and model experiments of climate change. Theoretical and practical insights into scientific research from field to lab to computer.
Contacts
Apl. Prof. Dr. habil. Bernhard Diekmann
Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Helmhotz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Telegrafenberg A43
14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49-(0)331-288-2170, +49-(0)171-5289045
E-Mail: bernhard.diekmann@awi.de
Home: AWI Potsdam, Bernhard Diekmann
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PD Dr. Georg Feulner
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Telegrafenberg A62
14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49-(0)331-288-2513
E-Mail: georg.feulner@pik-potsdam.de
Home: Georg Feulner, Department Earth System Analysis, PIK
- Kursleiter:in: apl Prof. Bernhard Diekmann
- Kursleiter:in: PD Dr. Georg Feulner