IMPRS-ESM Courses principally available (upon sufficient interest)
Title (Lecturer) Type Mode Days Credit Points
Academic Writing (Churkina, Freibauer) course block (in 3 parts) 4 2
Advanced GAMS (Schneider) course     2
Aerosol Course (Massling) course block (in 2 parts) 6 2
Applied Mathematical Programming (Schneider) course bi-weekly 6 2
Geophysical Colloquium (Dehghani) seminar weekly 5 0
Introduction to Computing at ZMAW and to the UNIX system (Wegner, Bugl, Rasche) course block (in 2 parts) 2.5 1
Introduction to Earth Systems Science and Modelling (Claussen, Edenhofer, Held in 2003, since 2004 Alcamo) course block 5 2
Introduction to FORTRAN (Luthardt) course block 5 2
Introduction to Terrestrial Ecosystem Modelling (Churkina) course block 5 2
Introduction to Working with Large Data Sets (Wegner) course block 5 1
Numerical Recipes (Reick) course block 5 2
Terrestrial ecosystems and the global carbon cycle: Processes & global budgets course block 3 2
The programming tool GAMS (Schneider) course block 5 2
PhD Seminar on Earth System Modelling seminar weekly   1+1
Philosophy of Science - part I: 'The role of statistical methods in building knowledge' (von Storch, Marotzke) seminar weekly 5 2
Philosophy of Science - part II: 'The role of conceptual models (theory) in building knowledge' (von Storch, Marotzke) seminar weekly 5 2
Philosophy of Science - part III: 'The role of quasi-realistic models in building knowledge' (von Storch, Marotzke) seminar weekly 5 2
Philosophy of Science - part IV: 'The role of observations in building knowledge' (von Storch, Marotzke) seminar weekly 5 2
Working with ECHAM5 course block 4 1
ZMAW-IMPRS Regular Report Series seminar weekly   2

Overview of Courses previously offered (no guarantee for a repetition)
Title (Lecturer) Type Mode Days Credit Points Time / More Information
Academic Writing (Churkina, Freibauer) course block (in 3 parts) 4 2 Winter 2006
Advanced GAMS (Schneider) course     2  
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in the Climate System (Lohmann) course block 4 2 Summer 2004
Aerosol Course (Massling) course block (in 2 parts) 6 2 Winter 2006
Applied Mathematics (Schneider) course bi-weekly 6 2 Summer 2006
Atmospheric Chemistry (Brasseur) course block 4 2 Summer 2003
Winter 2005
Computing at the ZMAW (beginners' course) course block 1 0 Summer 2005
Summer 2006
Environmental Economics and Management (Tol) course block 4 2 Summer 2002
Summer 2003
Summer 2004
Summer 2005
Summer 2006
Economic Models for Environmental Applications (Tol) course block 4 2 Winter 2002
Winter 2003
Winter 2004
Environmental Change and Management (Tol; Arneth until spring 2004; Weitz since June 2004) seminar weekly 5 2*) each semester between Winter 2002 and Summer 2006
Integrated Socio-Economic-Ecological Modeling (Grossmann) course block 5 2 Winter 2002
Introduction to Computing at ZMAW and to the UNIX system (Wegner, Bugl, Rasche) course block (in 2 parts) 2.5 1 Summer 2006
Introduction to Dynamical Systems, part I (Reick) course block 5 2 Summer 2003
Introduction to Dynamical Systems, part II (Reick) course block 3 2 Winter 2003
Introduction to Modelling (Sündermann) course weekly 5 2**) Summer 2002
Summer 2003
Summer 2005
Introduction to Numerical Methods (Brasseur) course block 2.5 1 Summer 2005
Introduction to Programming (Luthardt, Wegner) course block 10 4 Summer 2002
Summer 2003
Summer 2004
Introduction to Terrestrial Ecosystem Modelling (Churkina) course block 5 2 Summer 2005
Journal Course (Weitz) course weekly 7 2 Summer 2006
Land Use Modelling (Alcamo; Priess) course block 5 2 Summer 2003
Paleoclimate (Heinze) course block 5 2 Winter 2002
Physical Oceanography (Meincke) course block 6 2 Winter 2002
Summer 2003
Winter 2005
Quantitative Economics (Funke, Lucke, Straubhaar, Tol) seminar**) weekly 5 2*) Summer 2002
Summer 2003
Summer 2004
Summer 2005
Regional Climate Modelling (Schlünzen) course block 4 2 Winter 2003
Society and Climate (von Storch, Tol) course block 2 2 Summer 2003
Terrestrial and Atmospheric Carbon: basic processes, energy use and climate policy (Arneth, Michaelowa, Spitzer) course block 5 2 Winter 2003
Terrestrial ecosystems and the global carbon cycle: Processes & global budgets course block 3 2 Winter 2006
The programming tool GAMS (Tol, Schneider) course block 5 2 Winter 2002
*) Credit points are assigned starting 2005          
**) from 2002-2004, 4 credit points assigned, starting 2005, 2 credit points