How are the components of a full Earth system model coupled together?
What are current challenges in modeling land, ocean, and atmospheric chemistry?
And what kind of infrastructure is needed to make the system work?
These and other questions will be explored by bringing together experts from across the natESM community in a series of hybrid lectures. These lectures will be combined with practical sessions where students will run and analyze their own simulations.
The course is fully integrated into the Physics of the Earth and Atmosphere and Computational Sciences master programs, and students enrolled in Cologne will receive 6 ECTS credits.
While the course is initially hosted from Cologne, its modular and hybrid format is designed to enable future adoption at other universities.
We hope it will serve as a prototype for further university-level teaching based on natESM components, and we would be glad to share materials and lessons learned with anyone interested.
If you are considering offering a similar course at your university, please contact the organizers (Vera Schemann from University of Cologne and natESM process coordinator Iris Ehlert) for further information.
📄 Course agenda
The introductory slides presented by Iris Ehlert, including students’ answers to natESM-related questions, you can find here.