Product of a Helmholtz Research School on global climate change, funded by the Helmholtz Association and established in 2008 as the Earth System Science Research School (ESSReS), a joint initiative of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, the University of Bremen, and Jacobs University Bremen. Cf. pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

General aspects of earth system science / Gerrit Lohmann, Klaus Grosfeld, Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Vikram Unnithan, Justus Notholt, and Anna Wegner -- The structural and educational concept in an interdisciplinary research school for earth system science / Klaus Grosfeld, Gerrit Lohmann, Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Annette Ladstätter-Weissenmayer, Justus Notholt, Vikram Unnithan, and Anna Wegner -- NO₂ pollution trends over megacities 1996-2010 from combined multiple satellite data sets / Andreas Hilboll, Andreas Richter, and John P. Burrows -- A brief example on the application of remotely sensed tracer observations in atmospheric science : studying the impact of stratosphere-mesosphere coupling on polar ozone variability / Christoph G. Hoffmann, Matthias Palm, Justus Notholt, Uwe Raffalski, and Gerd Hochschild -- Contamination of the western Pacific atmosphere / Theo Ridder, Justus Notholt, Thorsten Warneke, and Lin Zhang -- Three dimensional model simulations of the impact of solar proton events on nitrogen compounds and ozone in the middle atmosphere / Nadine Wieters, Horst Winkler, Miriam Sinnhuber, Jan Maik Wissing, and Justus Notholt -- Evaluation of the coupled and extended SCIATRAN version including radiation processes within the water : initial results / Mirjam Blum, Vladimir Rozanov, Tilman Dinter, John P. Burrows, and Astrid Bracher -- Improving the PhytoDOAS method to retrieve coccolithophores using hyper-spectral satellite data / Alireza Sadeghi, Tilman Dinter, Marco Vountas, Bettina Taylor, and Astrid Bracher -- Primary productivity and circulation patterns downstream of South Georgia : a Southern Ocean "island mass effect" / Ines Borrione, Olivier Aumont, and Reiner Schlitzer -- Summer sea ice concentration changes in the Weddell Sea and their causes / Sandra Schwegmann, Ralf Timmermann, Rüdiger Gerdes, and Peter Lemke -- Validation of the snow grain size retrieval SGSP using six ground truth data sets / Heidrun Wiebe, Georg Heygster, and Eleonora Zege -- The last interglacial as simulated by an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model : sensitivity studies on the influence of the Greenland ice sheet / Madlene Pfeiffer and Gerrit Lohmann -- Simulated Caribbean climate variability during the mid-Holocene / Wei Wei and Gerrit Lohmann -- Oceanic [delta]¹⁸O variation and its relation to salinity in the MPI-OM ocean model / Xu Xu, Martin Werner, Martin Butzin, and Gerrit Lohmann -- Ocean adjustment to high-latitude density perturbations / Sagar Bora, Sergey Danilov, and Gerrit Lohmann -- Continental deformation of Antarctica during Gondwana's breakup / Florian Wobbe and Karsten Gohl -- The inorganic carbon system in the deep Southern Ocean and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO₂ / Franziska Kersten and Ralf Tiedemann -- The significance of the long lived (>400 years) bivalve Arctica islandica as a high-resolution bioarchive / Jacqueline Krause-Nehring, Thomas Brey, Simon Thorrold, Andreas Klügel, Gernot Nehrke, and Bernd Brellochs -- Sub-annual resolution measurements of dust concentration and size in different time slices of the NorthGRIP ice core / Katrin Wolff, Anna Wegner, and Heinz Miller -- Predicting habitat suitability of cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa using multiscale terrain variables / Ruiju Tong, Autun Purser and Vikram Unnithan -- Resource-aware decomposition and orchestration of geoprocessing requests in a SOA framework / Michael Owonibi and Peter Baumann -- A specification-based quality model to improve confidence in Web services of multidisciplinary earth system science / Jinsongdi Yu and Peter Baumann -- Feasibility study of using a petroleum systems modeling software to evaluate basin scale pressure evolution associated with CO₂ storage / Christian Ihrig and Vikram Unnithan.