Prof. Dr. Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit.Lohmann@awi.de
Tel: 0471-4831-1758 / 1760 

Monday, 11:15 – 12:45
Room: S 3032

Goal:
To get an overview about the carbon cycle in the marine and terrestrial realm. Practical work complements the lessons.

Literature:

• Sarmiento and Gruber, Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics
• Earth System Science: From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Changes Michael Jacobson, Robert Charlson, Henning Rodhe, Gordon Orians
• Broecker, W., 1992: The glacial world according to wally
  
• Broecker, W. S. and T. H. Peng, 1999. Greenhouse Puzzles, 2nd edition, Eldigio Press, Palisades, NY, 251pp.
• Broecker, W. S. and T. H. Peng., 1982. Tracers in the Sea, Eldigio Press, Palisades, NY.
• Chester, R. 1999. Marine Geochemistry, 2nd edition, Blackwell Science, 528pp.
• Libes, S.M. 1992. An Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., N.Y. 734 pp.
• MacKenzie, F. T. 1999. Global biogeochemical cycles and the physical climate system, Global Change Instruction Program, UCAR, Boulder, CO, 69pp.
• William F. Ruddiman, Earth's Climate Past and Future
• Protocol_The_Inorganic_and_the_Organic_Carbon_Cycle pdf (332 KB)
• Protocol_THC_box_models pdf (480 KB)

Table:

1) 20.10.05 Overview, budgets

• Intro and overview ppt (3,6 MB), Intro and overview pdf (3,7 MB)
• Budgets ppt (3 MB)
• see also Chapters 4 & 11 in "Earth System Science" by Jacobson et al.

2) 1.11.05 Ocean: inorganic carbon cycle

• inorganic CC ppt (2 MB)
• inorganic CC pdf (932 KB)
• see also: Chapter 8 in Sarmiento & Gruber
  

3) 7.11.05 Ocean: organic carbon cycle

• inorganic CC ppt (2 MB)
• inorganic CC pdf (932 KB)
• additional pdf: inorganic CC
  

4) 14.11.05 Organic carbon cycle coninued, Terrestrial Biosphere

• Org Mar Land ppt (7,1 MB)
• Org Mar Land pdf (2 MB)

5) 21.11.05 Terrestrial Biosphere (Peter Koehler)

• Land ppt (1,8 MB)
• Land pdf (1,3 MB)

6) 28.11.05 Carbon isotopes: 14C (Radiocarbon)

• Radiocarbon ppt (6,4 MB)
• Radiocarbon pdf (2,3 MB)
• Nobel Prize Lecture of Libby pdf (356 KB)

7) 5.12.05 NPZD-Models (Christoph Voelker)

• Carbon biology pdf (1,7 MB)

8) 12.12.05 Box-Models, Practical

• inorganic carbon cycle doc (124 KB)
• inorganic carbon cycle: read me doc (28 KB)
• terrestrial 14-carbon cycle doc (28 KB)
• terrestrial carbon cycle doc (28 KB)
• marine carbon cycle doc (28 KB)

9) 09.01.06 Ocean circulation

• Ocean circulation ppt (5,4 MB)
• Ocean circulation pdf (2,6 MB)

10) 16.01.06 Carbon cycle, Paleoclimate, and 13-C

• 13-C ppt (10,5 MB)
• 13-C pdf (3,6 MB)

11) 26.01.06 Methane (Room N2210, time: 10-12)

• Milankovitch theory cont., Methan ppt (5,8 MB) 

12) 30.1.06 Soil (regular room and time)

• Soil ppt (6,6 MB)
• Soil pdf (2,5 MB)

13) 06.02.06 Lithosphere, Weathering, and Sediments

• Weathering ppt1 (8,3 MB), ppt2 (14,9 MB)
• Weathering pdf (6,1 MB)

22.02.2006 Oral exam

 
How to get the Credit Points / Schein?
Protocol / minutes (5-10 pages including figures)
Practical work within the lessons

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