Course description
The course provides PhD students with a broad holistic knowledge of the Arctic and how the Arctic system is affected by ongoing climate change, including feedbacks to the global climate system.
Lectures and seminars will take an Earth System perspective and cover current hot topics in Arctic research: the Atlantification of the Arctic; the collapse (or not) of the AMOC; polar amplification; the permafrost methane bomb; and greening vs browning (and burning) of the Arctic.
For each topic, the course will provide background knowledge, observed and expected changes in the light of a changing climate, and knowledge of how these components of the Earth System involved 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
Other information
Applicants must be able to attend lectures on campus in Gothenburg.
Course syllabus
NGEO302
Department
Department of Earth Sciences
Subject
Natural Science and Mathematics
Keywords
Climate change, Changing climate, Arctic, Climate