Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses (ACDC) are yearly summer schools organized by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (University of Bergen) in collaboration with the University of Washington, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the University of Texas at Austin with support from the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education and the Research Council of Norway. Partners for this year’s summer school include Harvard University, McGill University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and IBS Centre for Climate Physics. the goals is to mix diverse students and lecturers with empirical and dynamical training within climate science and focus on understanding the basic principles and dynamics relating to, and defining the climate of the Anthropocene. The key topics will be:

- how can we tell natural and anthropogenic forcing apart?
- impact of fires and aerosols
- rates of changes in the past and in the present
- coastal impacts
- extreme events
- demise of past civilizations
- human migration
- agriculture and climate
- the Little Ice Age
- cryosphere changes

Application deadline: 1 April 2019

Check http://www.uib.no/rs/acdc for details and continuous updates on list of lecturers and program