Research Projects and Topics

The Research School offers 12 PhD-projects in the field of Earth System Science. Most of them are already filled. The different topics cover the full range of disciplines involved in ESSRES with each of it is highly interdisciplinary and linked to both, different institutions and research groups.

A list of feasible topics and a description of each project is given below:

1. Comparative Visualization of Integrated Measured and Modelled Data
2. Large-scale, cross-domain Earth system raster services
3. Fluid flow modelling
4. GIS based regionalization of palaeo-scenarios
5. d¹⁸O modelling and comparison with marine and ice core data
6. Estimating warming and circulation changes in the Southern Ocean based on Argo drifter observations
   
7. Latitudinal gradients of greenhouse gases derived from ground-based remote sensing in the infrared spectral region
8. Island effects on marine production and circulation around the Antarctic Peninsula
9. Changes of deep water carbonate ion concentrations in the Southern Ocean over the past glacial/interglacial cycles
10. Ecosystem and climate: decadal pattern and spatio-temporal time series analysis
11. Interannual and decadal variability of sea ice concentration, drift, and thickness in the Weddell Sea
12. Palaeogeography and palaeotopography: dynamic constraints for palaeoclimatic simulation at long time-scales
13. Inversion of sedimentary structures into the generating transport process: The role of the Agulhas Ridge as a barrier to bottom currents
14. Simulation of bands of Mg/Ca composition in foramniferal calcite
15. The role of patchiness in marine ecosystem functioning
16. Analysis of greenhouse gases from space
17. Satellite remote sensing of polar regions
18. Retrieval of tropospheric ozone from space
19. Observation of Megacity pollution from space

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