Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Admission Requirements:  Successful completion of the module "Allgemeine Meteorology".
• Qualification: Students are able to read and understand satellite data and derived products and data sets. They can analyse and evaluate them with regard to relevant questions from a meteorological and environmental science perspective and interpret them. They can include various satellite products in their evaluation and assess the information content of these against each other.

• Content: The principles of evaluating satellite data are taught and the assessment of meteorological situations is practised using examples.

• The course only takes place in the winter semester only.

Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Admission Requirements:  Successful completion of the module "Fundamentals of Experimental Physics".
• Qualification: Students have basic knowledge of radiation processes in the atmosphere and can calculate simple radiation quantities.

• Content: Teaching the basics of atmospheric radiation and remote sensing. Blackbody radiation, Planck's radiation law, solar and terrestrial radiation, absorption of atmospheric gases, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, radiation balance of the earth-atmosphere system, remote sensing of atmospheric variables (molecules, aerosols, clouds, precipitation).

• Module is offered in the summer semester only.

Module coordinator: Prof. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Admission Requiremetns: None.
• Content: In this seminar, contributions from current research will be presented and discussed.
• Get in touch: Attendance of this advanced seminar as part of the module 'Scientific Working and Presentation' is recommended to accompany the Bachelor's and Master's thesis. Students should choose the advanced seminar of the working group in which they are writing their Bachelor's respectively Master's thesis. It is part of the supervision concept for the final thesis.

Module coordinator: Prof. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Admission Requirements: None
• Content: Knowledge of writing scientific texts (including the structure of scientific papers, correct citation). Learning various research techniques and evaluating data sets. Data management and presentation techniques
• Qualification: Students have the methodological knowledge necessary for the independent preparation and writing of scientific texts. They are able to research and prepare specialised literature and data. They will be able to familiarise themselves with the current state of discussion in a field of research and formulate related scientific questions and problems. In addition, you will be able to present and discuss your own and others' scientific texts and results in a target group-orientated manner.
• The course takes place in the winter semester only.

Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Admission Requirements:   None.
• Qualification: Students have basic knowledge of the atmospheric life cycle of mineral dust and its interactions in the atmospheric system. They are able to apply their knowledge independently to current research questions and synthesise the resulting findings.

• Content: Atmospheric dust life cycle, dust sources, processes of emission and entrainment of dust into the atmosphere, dust transport and atmospheric residence time, meteorology of desert regions, interactions with the atmospheric system, social relevance of regional and global mineral dust distribution.

• This module is offered during sommer semester only.

Module coordinator: Prof. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Admission Requirements: keine.

• Qualification: Students are familiar with the structure of planetary atmospheres. They have basic knowledge of how to work out and interpret radiation and energy balances. They are familiar with the fundamentals of thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of planetary atmospheres and have the methodological skills to apply them. They can apply their knowledge of atmospheric processes to various planetary climate conditions and present their findings to the group in an argumentative manner.

• Content: Students deal with the structure and properties of planetary atmospheres using examples from inside and outside the solar system. They learn methods for calculating the radiation and energy balance as well as the basics of radiation transfer in planetary atmospheres, and they familiarise themselves with the basics of atmospheric thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. Using planetary climatic conditions, they learn to explain and discuss their dependence on the planetary configuration and atmospheric composition.
• This course is offered during summer semester only.
  
  

Module coordinator: Prof. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Admission Requirements: Keine.
• Qualification: Students are familiar with the current state of ground-based and satellite-based remote sensing of the ocean and the atmosphere. They are familiar with the physical principles of common measurement methods and the mathematical principles of inversion methods and are able to develop simple methods independently.
• Content: Remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases, aerosols, land surfaces and the surface and constituents of the ocean: Importance of trace gases, aerosols as well as oceanic substances in the Earth's climate system; Presentation of measurements and simulations of spectra as used for remote sensing; Presentation of various measurement methods.
• This course is only offered in the summer semester.
  
  

Modulverantwortliche: Prof. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de.

• Zugangsvoraussetzungen: Keine.
• Qualifikationsziele: Die Studentinnen und Studenten besitzen grundlegendes Wissen über den gegenwärtigen Stand der satellitengestützten Fernerkundung (FE) in der Meteorologie. Sie kennen die physikalischen Grundlagen der Messmethoden und die mathematischen Grundlagen der Inversionsmethoden und können die vielfältigen Messungen und Messmethoden interpretieren und bewerten.
• Inhalte: Grundlagen der Strahlungstransporttheorie, mit Ausrichtung auf die für die Fernerkundung wichtigen Aspekte (Absorption, Emission und Streuung von solarer und terrestrischer Strahlung an atmosphärischen Bestandteilen) – Vorstellung verschiedener Inversionsmethoden (Lookup-Tabellen, lineare und nichtlineare Regressionen, PCA, Neuronale Netze, optimale Schätzung usw.), – Überblick der aktuellen meteorologischen satellitengestützten Fernerkundungsinstrumente und -methoden, – Anwendung des erlernten Wissens auf aktuelle Satellitendaten, Einführung in aktuelle Datenformate und Programmier-Entwicklungsumgebungen.
• Veranstaltung wird nur im Wintersemester angeboten.

Modulbeauftragte: Prof. Kerstin Schepanski: kerstin.schepanski@fu-berlin.de

• Zugangsvoraussetzung: Keine.
• Inhalte: In diesem Seminar werden Beiträge aus der aktuellen Forschung vorgestellt und diskutiert.
• Anmeldung: Der Besuch dieses Hauptseminars als Teil des Moduls 'Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und Präsentieren' wird als Begleitung zur Maserarbeit empfohlen. Studierende sollten das Hauptseminar der Arbeitsgruppe wählen, in der sie die Masterarbeit anfertigen. Es ist Teil des Betreuungskonzeptes der Abschlussarbeit.