31 March – 4 April 2025

The school will offer a comprehensive overview of the cryosphere's complex role in seamless prediction and climate system modelling. The cryosphere influences weather and climate patterns, ocean circulation, and the hydrological cycle. It plays a key role in climate feedback mechanisms and serves as a reservoir of water and energy on seasonal to decadal timescales. Incorporating cryospheric data and processes into climate models is crucial for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of both climate predictions and  projections.

Lecture and group work topics will include the cryosphere in the climate system, seasonal snow cover, ice sheets and glaciers, permafrost and seasonally frozen ground, sea ice, etc., from a modelling perspective at climate prediction to projection time scales. All participants will be requested to present their research and to open up for feedback. Participants will receive certificates corresponding to the number of hours/credits.

Programm: → Download the program draft (pdf)

Lecturers (confirmed):

• Prof. Bodo Ahrens, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - Climate system
• Dr. Francesco Avanzi, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy - Snow
• Dr. Kristina Fröhlich, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany - Seamless prediction
• Prof. Angelika Humbert, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Germany - Ice sheet modelling
• Dorotea Iovino, Ph.D., Fondazione CMCC Bologna, Italy - Sea ice
• Prof. Roland Potthast, DWD, Germany - Model initialisation & data assimilation
• Dr. Silvia Terzago, CNR, ISAC, Italy - Snow
• Dr. Stefan Hagemann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany - Frozen soils, permafrost