Our second 10-day course on e-science tools for climate research has successfully been held at the Andøya Space Center in northern Norway ( 22nd of October – 2nd of November 2018). The course ”Climate science at high latitudes: Modeling and…
The “Ocean/Atmosphere Time Series Analysis: Theory and Practice” course took place during the two weeks of 15-26. October, 2018. The course was taught by oceanographer Jonathan Lilly (Theiss Research, La Jolla, California), and held at the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven,…
All supervisor and student members are invited to propose an activity for our community. If you carry an idea for a course, a workshop or a summer/winter school with a topic relevant to CHESS PhD students, and would like to…
During 14 intense days (17-28 September), 23 students and 9 lecturers from worldwide have explored the asymmetries and symmetries in the climate system with prime examples from the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere and the terrestrial domain. The summer school…
SAVE THE DATES! Our coming CHESS Annual Meeting will be held on 13 – 15 March 2019. This time we will meet at the Voksenåsen Kultur og Konferansehotell in Oslo. Our annual meeting is an excellent opportunity for all members…
The “Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research” course took place at the Geophysics Institute at the University of Bergen from 13-16 August, 2018. The course was delivered by Prof. David Stephenson and Dr. Stefan Siegert from the Department of Mathematics…
The Bornö Summer School in Oceanography took place from 30 July to 10 August, 2018, on the island of Storo Bornö, in the Gullmarn Fjord on the west coast of Sweden. The course was part-sponsored by CHESS but was also…
It was again my pleasure to conduct, with Dr. Thomas Spengler, the annual CHESS Advanced Writing Course 25-29 June 2018. This year we had fourteen enrollees, a range of nationalities and scientific disciplines. We successfully confronted the near universal writing…
The second Crash Course on Data Assimilation has been held at NERSC, Bergen from the 22nd to the 25th of May 2018. It was co-organized with Iris, CHESS and the COST action EOS (Evaluation of Ocean Syntheses) and gathered 35…
All PhD students and supervisors affiliated with CHESS are invited to submit proposals for courses, workshops, or summer/winter schools. The total budget of the call this year is 600 kNOK, resulting in 4-6 CHESS activities with 50-150 kNOK each. If…