Course description
The course provides PhD students with a broad holistic knowledge of the Arctic and how the Arctic systems affected by ongoing climate change, including possible feedbacks to climate system.
Lectures and seminars will take an earth system perspective and cover: Arctic marine environment, Arctic atmosphere, Arctic cryosphere, Arctic terrestial ecology and climate modelling.
For each topic, the course will provide background knowledge of the system, observed and expected changes in the light of a changig climate and also knowledge of how these systems interact and affect each other.
Requirements and Selection
Entry requirements
Admitted to third cycle education
Selection
- Doctoral students at the responsible Department
- Doctoral students participating in the ClimBEco program (part of the joint GU/LU BECC Strategic Research Area)
- Doctoral students at the responsible Department own faculty
- Doctoral students within another faculty at the University of Gothenburg
- Doctoral students admitted to other higher education institutions
Course syllabus
NGEO302
Department
Department of Earth Sciences
Subject
Natural Science and Mathematics
Keywords
Climate change, Changing climate, Arctic, Climate
