The Department of Integrated Climate system Science provides an integrated graduate-level education in integrated climate system science. The department is an integral part of the newly established School of Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change.

Our department offers research oriented education in climate and earth system sciences of an interdisciplinary nature. Faculty expertise lies in atmospheric and ocean dynamics, Earth system predictability and sensitivity, hydrological extremes, weather and climate risks, ocean biogeochemistry, paleo-climate dynamics and climate modelling. We combine theoretical approaches, simulations with a hierachy of numerical models of different complexity with field work and laboratory analyses.

Our lectures cover a wide range of subjects from atmospheric science, oceanography, climate physics, geophysical fluid dynamics, marine biogeochemistry, numerical modelling to statistics. Our students have also the opportunity to attend field trips and summer schools.

We aim to educate students and provide research opportunities to address cutting-edge questions in integrated climate system research, climate dynamics and climate impacts. Our multidisciplinary climate system science approach gives graduate students a broad perspective on multiscale variability in time and space, and on the interaction between different earth system components, including the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere.

Our educational focus is on:

• Fostering high quality research of our students
• Using multi-disciplinary science approaches
• Tackling novel science questions
• Training the next generation of integrated climate system scientists
• Supporting our students to become independent scientists