About TRE

These two fully sponsored consecutive interdisciplinary summer schools will be designed for doctoral students, aiming:

1. to improve their skills to understand the complex interaction of the processes in the Earth's climate system,
2.  to acquire knowledge in state-of-the-art methods of climate time series analysis,
3.  to interpret the results of their analysis of past, present and future climate change, including the associated uncertainties, as well as
4. to identify, predict and communicate the impacts of natural and human-caused climate change in an interdisciplinary and intercultural environment, taught by a team of experienced lecturers and researchers.

Curriculum

During each of the weeks of the summer schools, 2–5 instructors will be available to contribute to the lectures, demonstrations, discussions and group works. Furthermore, the instructors are invited, similar to the participants, to give 12–15 minute conference-style presentations about their current rese-arch in the field of climate change.

Each week of the summer schools includes five weekdays (Monday–Friday) of lectures, exercises and demonstrations in the morning, and group work in the afternoon. At the end of the afternoon there is room to discuss the results of the progressing group work in short presentations.

Modules

The first set of Modules 1–3 will focus on the dynamics of the Earth's climate system, the fundamentals of climate time series analysis and the consideration of uncertainties in climate data.

The second set of Modules 4–6 will be about advanced methods of climate time series analysis as well as the impacts of climate change.

The cross-thematic Modules 7+8 are about visible traces and effects of climate change as observed in the field and about communicating climate change to non-experts such as decision makers and the public.Participants in the summer school are expected to form part of a new generation of researchers that is well-equipped with the necessary knowledge and tools to assess and mitigate current and future environmental changes.