Biogeochemical Cycles in the Earth System - an Overview
Goal of the module is an overview over the global Earth System, its major components (Atmosphere, ocean, land surfaces and cryosphere), their interactions through exchanges of energy, momentum and materials, and the major physical, chemical and biological processes controlling these exchanges. A special emphasis is given to the role of the global cycles of biogeochemical elements and their modifications in the context of global change.
1. Overview
| Course | Course leaders | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overview: Global Biogeochemical Cycles | Susan Trumbore, Martin Heimann Info for course leaders | February 14-15 + February 18-20, 2013 | MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena Room B0.002 |
2. Prerequisites
Please indicate in the registration form if you can bring a laptop to the course (for the practical part). You will need the Wolfram Mathematica Player and a web browser. If you do not have a laptop available, we can lend you one if we know early enough.
3. Outline
| Slot | Time |
|---|---|
| a.m. (I) | 09:30-10:30 |
| a.m. (II) | 11:00-12:00 |
| p.m. (I) | ca. 14:00-15:30 (will be defined in the morning) |
| Day | Slot | Type | Content | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday | Martin Heimann | |||
| a.m. (I + II) | L | Introduction - Overview of Earth System - Components and processes in the Earth System (Atmosphere, Ocean, Land surfaces, Hydrological cycle, Cryosphere) - Fundamental scientific questions - Energy balance | MH | |
| p.m. (I) | L + D | Exercises with simple energy balance model - Feedback calculus - Bifurcations and chaos | MH | |
| Friday | Martin Heimann | |||
| a.m. (I) | L | Biogeochemical cycles I: Cycles of carbon and oxygen | MH | |
| a.m. (II) | L + D | Simple carbon cycle model | MH | |
| p.m. (I) | L + D | Biogeochemical cycles II: Simple coupled carbon cycle - climate model | MH | |
| Monday | Susan Trumbore | |||
| a.m. (I+II) | L+D | History of climate and the atmospheric composition (geologic, ice ages, Holocene, historical, contemporary trends) | ST | |
| p.m. (I) | L | TBA | ST | |
| Tuesday | Susan Trumbore | |||
| a.m. (I+II) | L | Biogeochemical cycles III (N, S, P) | ST | |
| p.m. (I) | L+D | Coupled BGC-climate models | ST | |
| Wednesday | Martin Heimann/Susan Trumbore | |||
| a.m. (I) | L | Global change I (Drivers, model simulations and selected impacts) | MH/ST | |
| a.m. (II) | L + D | Comprehensive Earth System models | MH/ST | |
| p.m. (I) | L | Global change II (Uncertainties, open questions, socio-economic aspects) Q/A | MH/ST |
4. Registration
Click here to register before February 1, 2013.
5. Literature
- Wallace and Hobbs, Atmospheric Science, Elsevier Academic Press, International Geophysics Series, v92, 2002, ISBN: 0-12-732950-1, 483pp.
- Schlesinger: Biogeochemistry - An analysis of global change, Elsevier Academic Press, 1997, ISBN: 978-0-12-625155-5, 588pp.
- Jacobson, Charlson, Rhode and Orians: Earth System Science, Elsevier Academic Press, International Geophysics Series vol. 72, 2000, ISBN: 978-0-12-379370-6, 527pp.
6. Course material (slides, notebooks, etc.):
Material will be made available though this password protected page.
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8. Previous overview courses
Overview course, February 2012
Overview course, December 2010