Certificate: | Master |
Target Group: | Graduates |
Provider: | University |
The goal of the master's program is to allow students to achieve a better understanding of the role that ocean and atmosphere play in such coupled climate scenarios on time scales from years to decades and to improve prediction feasibility for the Earth's physical climate. By now it has become an accepted fact that the ocean takes on a key role in anthropogenic climate changes. Important aspects are here the uptake of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and the related feedback on global warming, circulation changes and their impact on the marine ecosystem as well as sea level rise. The multitude of factors influencing the climate of ocean and atmosphere requires a multi-disciplinary collaboration between various sciences. Therefore, the investigation of ocean climate and related phenomena is specifically based on a combination of oceanographic, meteorological and to some extent bio-geochemical observational programs. These are closely related to various computer models which permit not only a more and more realistic simulation of structure and variability of climate phenomena, ocean currents and their interaction with the marine ecosystem but also the identification of possible scenarios with anthropogenic contributions to climate change. |
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Language: | Study in English |
Institution: | Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel |
Location: | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4 24118 Kiel |
End: | unlimited |
Internetpage: | Further information |
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