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Open Office-Hour Summer 2022

Thursday 9:00-10:00 (starting 20.04.2023 untill 27.07.2023) Please get in touch per mail (Norbert.Frank(at)uni-heidelberg.de) or phone (+49 6221 546332) to fix an appointment. For Online meetings use the Channel - HeiCONF: https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/fra-hrv-3p3

Our present lecture program

upcoming Summer Semester 2023

Lectures

Header Physics of Climate

# MVMod Climate Physics (FORMAT: Presence only details will be provided on the lecture webside) Content: ~24h lecture on the physics of the climate system to learn about the statistical nature of the climate system, energy and mass transfer, its sensitivity to external forcing and internal feedback. Climate variability on different time scales will be discussed as well as the cycles of water and green house gases (This lecture requires the MKEP4 lecture on environmental physics as minimum knowledge)

Seminars

* PSEM Isotopenmethoden (FORMAT: Presence only) Content: Talks on numerous classical subjects of isotope methods in Environmental Physics, including the water cycle, carbon cycle, and further including forensics. The subject areas comprise the transport and fractionation of water and carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, ocean, and biosphere, and we include the use of radiocarbon as environmental tracer.

* Journal Club Environmental Physics (FORMAT: Presence and online hybrid conferencing) Content: bi-Weekly seminar to discuss recent publications relevant to the understanding of environmental physics science - includng climate change, carbon cycle, tipping points, climate engineering, etc... (Every term subjects are chosen by the participating doctoral and master students)

* Physics of Environmental Archives (FORMAT: Presence and online hybrid conferencing) Content: In this weekly seminar we discuss the scientific progress of the team and we evaluate recently published articles that are relevant for the understanding of present and past climate as well as the tools in chronology and isotope tracing that we use. The seminar is only relevant to Bachelor and Master students interest to work in Paleoclimatology and Geochemistry and it requires a significant knowledge on the use of climate and environmental archives.

Winter Semester 2022/2023

Lectures

# MVMod Climate Physics (FORMAT: Presence only INF 227 / SR 1.403/1.404 - details will be provided on the lecture webside) Content: ~24h lecture on the physics of the climate system to learn about the statistical nature of the climate system, energy and mass transfer, its sensitivity to external forcing and internal feedback. Climate variability on different time scales will be discussed as well as the cycles of water and green house gases (This lecture requires the MKEP4 lecture on environmental physics as minimum knowledge)

Seminars

Our past lecture program

Summer Semester 2022

Lectures

# MKEP4 - Environmental Physics: This introductory course lecture on Environmental Physics provides the basis for all other courses in this area of specialization within the Master’s curriculum. The objective of the lecture is to convey a fundamental understanding of the physical processes and interactions within the Earth system. The properties and dynamics of the major compartments of the environment, transport processes within and between them, and their interaction in the climate system are treated. The lecture is structured in six chapters:

Introduction (Earth Radiative Balance, Fluid Advection and Diffusion)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (NSE, Vorticity, Turbulence, Potential Vorticity)
Boundary layer and large scale motion (Law of the wall, Prandtl's hypothesis, Geostrophy, Sverdrup Balance)
Isotopes and Applications (Fractionation, Global Meteoric Water Line, Radiocarbon, Keeling assumption)
Models and Complexity (From simple box-models to complexity, Logistic map and Bifurcation)
Climate Sensitivity and Past Climate

Seminars

Winter Semester 2021/2022

Lectures

- None this Semester -

Seminars

* PSEM Isotopenmethoden

* Methods of Environment and Climate Research

* Physics of Environmental Archives

* Journal Club Environmental Physics

Summer Semester 2021

Lectures

Header Vorlesung PEP2

# PEP2 Experimental Physics II - Electrodynamics (FORMAT: Streaming on Youtube and parallel Chat - Videos Captures for offline use) Content: 48 h on the physics of electrical and magnetic forces and interactions, including roughly 100 experiments to demonstrate the behaviour of static charges, electrical fields, moving charges, and magnetic fields. The key learning goal is a fundamental understanding of the four Maxwell equations and the behavior of electromagnetic waves including some fundamentals of optics and spectroscopy. Lastly the lecture contains some thermodynamics from the previous classical mechanics and thermodynamics lecture and it closes with a brief look at the principal of special relativity. It is accompanied by 11-12 exercise sheets with problems on the subject matters, which need to be accomplished individually or as teamwork followed by tutorials to discuss the solutions and the physics behind the problem.(Physics Bachelor Program).

# MVMod Physics and Chemistry of the Ocean (FORMAT: Several hours of videos followed by discussions and practical exercises using ODV and Ocean Python - This semester the course is taught as a block-course) Content: ~24h lecture on the physics and chemistry of the ocean to learn about the interaction between advective pathways of matter and energy and its along way transformation through sedimentation and chemical reactions. The learning goal is to get a sufficient understanding of ocean dynamics and the behavior of the largest world chemical power plant, which is needed to apprehend mordern scientific and societal problems inclduing ocean acidification, global warming, litter, and deoxygenation. Through the exercises we introduce normally Ocean Data View as a toolbox to work with oceanographic data, Ocean python to learn about a useful application of programming and we discuss recent literature and fundamental publications of the field. (Applies to both Physics and Earth Sciences Master programs)

# MVMod Climate Physics (FORMAT: Online conference / Streaming - details will be provided on the lecture webside) Content: ~24h lecture on the physics of the climate system to learn about the statistical nature of the climate system its underlying covering equations of motion, energy and mass transfer, its sensitivity to external forcing and internal feedback. Climate variability on different time scales will be discussed as well as the cycles of water and green house gases(This lecture requires the MKEP4 lecture on environmental physics as minimum knowledge)

Seminars

* Isotopenmethoden

* Physics of Environmental Archives

* Journal Club Environmental Physics

Winter Semester 2020/2021

Lectures

Header der Vorlesung

# PEP1 Experimental Physics I - Classical mechanics and thermodynamics (FORMAT: Hybrid Youtube Streaming, Chat and partial presence of students in the lecture hall) Content: 48 h on the classical mechanics, i.e. point mechanics and newtonian laws and conservation equations. The lecture includes all classical forces, momentum and inertia of solid bodies. Thermodyanmics, i.e. the behavior of fluids, and the role of macroscopic and microscopic state variables as well as the three laws of thermodyanmics and thermodynamic machines are subject of this lecture course. The course is accompanied by 11 - 12 exercise sheets with physics problems that need to be solved individually or in teamwork.

Example : The Christmas Special Lecture - (in German)

Seminars

* Methods of Environment and Climate Research

* Isotopenmethoden

* Physics of Environmental Archives

* Journal Club Environmental Physics

Summer Semester 2020

Lectures

Electrodynamics header

# PEP2 Experimental Physics II - Electrodynamics (FORMAT: Streaming on Youtube and parallel Chat - Videos Captures for offline use) Content: 48 h on the physics of electrical and magnetic forces and interactions, including roughly 100 experiments to demonstrate the behaviour of static charges, electrical fields, moving charges, and magnetic fields. The key learning goal is a fundamental understanding of the four Maxwell equations and the behavior of electromagnetic waves including some fundamentals of optics and spectroscopy. Lastly the lecture contains some thermodynamics from the previous classical mechanics and thermodynamics lecture and it closes with a brief look at the principe of special relativity. It is accompanied by 11-12 exercise sheets with problems on the subject matter, which need to be accomplished individually or as teamwork followed by tutorials to discuss the solutions and the physics behind the problem.(Physics Bachelor Program).

# MVMod Physics and Chemistry of the Ocean

Seminars

* Physics of Environmental Archives (Online Meeting to discuss the team progress and novel publicaitons and tools)

Winter Semester 2019/2020

Lectures

PEP1 participants

MVMod Physics of Aquatic Systems
MVSpec Physics of Environmental Archives

Seminars

*Physics of Environmental Archives Oberseminar