Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Earth System Science—Past Experiences and Future Trends

      • Vikram Unnithan, Astrid Bracher, Klaus Grosfeld, Annette Ladstätter-Weißenmayer, Gerrit Lohmann, Helge Meggers et al.

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   3. The Educational Program of the Earth System Science Research School (ESSReS)

      • Helge Meggers, Matthias Buschmann, Klaus Grosfeld, Stefanie Klebe

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   4. Time Evolution of a PhD Student’s Mood—A Review of My Time as PhD Student of the Research School ESSReS

      • Christoph Gregor Hoffmann

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   5. Progress in Earth System Science: What Does It Take to Make Our Ideas Clear?

      • Gerrit Lohmann

      Pages 25-35

3. Remote Sensing and Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Sea Ice Parameters

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Towards a Better Tropospheric Ozone Data Product from SCIAMACHY: Improvements in High Latitude Stratospheric Ozone

      • Jia Jia, Annette Ladstätter-Weißenmayer , Alexei Rozanov, John P. Burrows

      Pages 39-48

   3. Ten-Year SCIAMACHY Stratospheric Aerosol Data Record: Signature of the Secondary Meridional Circulation Associated with the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

      • Lena A. Brinkhoff, Alexei Rozanov, René Hommel, Christian von Savigny, Florian Ernst, Heinrich Bovensmann et al.

      Pages 49-58

   4. Investigating the Link Between Glyoxal and Biogenic Activities

      • Leonardo M. A. Alvarado, Andreas Richter, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Folkard Wittrock, Andreas Hilboll, Stefan F. Schreier et al.

      Pages 59-65

   5. Estimates of NOx Emission Factors from GOME-2 Measurements for the Major Types of Open Biomass Burning

      • Stefan F. Schreier, Andreas Richter, John P. Burrows

      Pages 67-75

   6. The Use of FTIR-Spectrometry in Combination with Different Biosphere-Atmosphere Flux Measurement Techniques

      • Hella van Asperen, Thorsten Warneke, Justus Notholt

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   7. Near-Infrared Lunar Absorption Spectroscopy for the Retrieval of Column Averaged CO2 and CH4

      • Matthias Buschmann, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Mathias Palm, Thorsten Warneke, Tine Weinzierl, Justus Notholt

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   8. A New Method to Filter Out Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) from SMOS Level 1C Data for Sea Ice Applications

      • Marcus Huntemann, Georg Heygster

      Pages 91-98

   9. Arctic Multiyear Ice Concentration Retrieval from SSM/I Data Using the NASA Team Algorithm with Dynamic Tie Points

      • Yufang Ye, Georg Heygster

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   10. Detecting CDOM Fluorescence Using High Spectrally Resolved Satellite Data: A Model Study

       • Aleksandra Wolanin, Vladimir Rozanov, Tilman Dinter, Astrid Bracher

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4. Physical Oceanography

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   2. The Flow of Dense Water Plumes in the Western Weddell Sea Simulated with the Finite Element Ocean Model (FEOM)

      • Mathias Rucker van Caspel, João Marcelo Absy, Qiang Wang, Hartmut H. Hellmer, Michael Schröder

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   3. Data Analysis and Modeling of the Amundsen Sea Embayment

      • Yoshihiro Nakayama, Ralph Timmermann, Michael Schröder, Hartmut H. Hellmer

      Pages 131-136

5. Sea-ice Physics

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This book describes the latest advances at the Helmholtz “Earth System Science Research School” where scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, the University of Bremen, and the Jacobs University are involved in research.
One of the greatest challenges is understanding ongoing environmental changes. The longer the time scale the more components of the Earth system are involved, e.g. interannual and decadal variations are related to the coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice system, whereas longer variations like glacial-interglacial or Cenozoic transitions involve the carbon cycle, ice sheets and gateways. In order to get deep insights into Earth system science, observations, remote sensing, past environmental data, as well as modeling need to be integrated. These different approaches are traditionally taught in separated disciplines at bachelor and master levels. It is, therefore, necessary to bring these disciplines together in PhD programs.

• Climate Dynamics
• Earth System Modelling
• Polar Processes
• Proxy Data
• Remote Sensing

“The book is aimed at those graduate students who are interested in pursuing doctoral researches in earth science with an aim to deliver a simple perspective for complex interactions. … the entire book provides a unique, brief and relevant perspective on multiple aspects of earth science, which seems to be more suitable for advanced users, while may be of use for graduate education essentially supplementing with more physically based earth science text books.” (Tirthankar Banerjee and Manish Kumar, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Vol. 22, 2015)

• Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

  Gerrit Lohmann

• Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

  Helge Meggers, Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Astrid Bracher

• School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

  Vikram Unnithan

• Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Justus Notholt