Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science: Advances of a Helmholtz Graduate Research School

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Earth System Science—Past Experiences and Future Trends....Pages 3-7
The Educational Program of the Earth System Science Research School (ESSReS)....Pages 9-17
Time Evolution of a PhD Student’s Mood—A Review of My Time as PhD Student of the Research School ESSReS....Pages 19-23
Progress in Earth System Science: What Does It Take to Make Our Ideas Clear?....Pages 25-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Towards a Better Tropospheric Ozone Data Product from SCIAMACHY: Improvements in High Latitude Stratospheric Ozone....Pages 39-48
Ten-Year SCIAMACHY Stratospheric Aerosol Data Record: Signature of the Secondary Meridional Circulation Associated with the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation....Pages 49-58
Investigating the Link Between Glyoxal and Biogenic Activities....Pages 59-65
Estimates of NO x Emission Factors from GOME-2 Measurements for the Major Types of Open Biomass Burning....Pages 67-75
The Use of FTIR-Spectrometry in Combination with Different Biosphere-Atmosphere Flux Measurement Techniques....Pages 77-84
Near-Infrared Lunar Absorption Spectroscopy for the Retrieval of Column Averaged CO 2 and CH 4 ....Pages 85-90
A New Method to Filter Out Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) from SMOS Level 1C Data for Sea Ice Applications....Pages 91-98
Arctic Multiyear Ice Concentration Retrieval from SSM/I Data Using the NASA Team Algorithm with Dynamic Tie Points....Pages 99-108
Detecting CDOM Fluorescence Using High Spectrally Resolved Satellite Data: A Model Study....Pages 109-121
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The Flow of Dense Water Plumes in the Western Weddell Sea Simulated with the Finite Element Ocean Model (FEOM)....Pages 125-129
Data Analysis and Modeling of the Amundsen Sea Embayment....Pages 131-136
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Impact of Sea-Ice Bottom Topography on the Ekman Pumping....Pages 139-148
Classification of CryoSat-2 Radar Echoes....Pages 149-158
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Integration of Passive Tracers in a Three-Dimensional Ice Sheet Model....Pages 161-170
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Bivalve Shells—Unique High-Resolution Archives of the Environmental Past....Pages 173-182
Functional Diversity and Traits Assembly Patterns of Benthic Macrofaunal Communities in the Southern North Sea....Pages 183-195
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Snow Accumulation in North Greenland over the Last Millennium....Pages 197-205
Seismostratigraphic Analysis and Glacial History of the Weddell Sea Region, Antarctica....Pages 207-217
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Visual Analysis of Relevant Fields in Geoscientific Multifield Data....Pages 221-232
A Database Language More Suitable for the Earth System Sciences....Pages 233-239
Towards Collaborative Exploration and Analysis of Big Data from Mars: A Noachis Terra Case Study....Pages 241-251