Training materials and helpful resources — natESM

Entry-level teaching materials on modeling

	Overview Simulation of Sea-ice by AWI In this section, you’ll have the chance to comprehensively expand your basic grasp of sea ice: physics, biology, measuring methods and modelling. It will be shown how researchers use computers to virtually “reconstruct” sea ice and project how it will change in response to climate change, and what grave consequences its loss could have for the entire planet.
	Online course: Build Climate Models using Python byTROPICSU An e-learning course to create climate models in Python through hands-on programming exercises. You will use Python to model energy balance; ice-albedo feedback; ice sheet dynamics; and pressure, rotation, and fluid flow.
	Wiki: Climate Data Operators CDO by MPI-M CDO is a large tool set for working on climate and NWP model data. The software is a collection of many operators for standard processing of climate and forecast model data. The operators include simple statistical and arithmetic functions, data selection and subsampling tools, and spatial interpolation.
	Climate and Carbon Cycle Models: Various models for exploration by University of Chicago (David Archer) Online course: Global warming - the science and modeling of climate change Several easy ESM models to combine and play with, suggested exercises, book and online course for self-education.
	Lecture: Good Scientific Code In this block-based-workshop you will learn all you need to know to write code that is Clear, Easy to understand, Well-documented, Reproducible, Testable, Reliable, Reusable, Extendable, and Generic. With lectures, slides and practical exercises. Also with video recording of the lecture.
	Lecture: Generic software skills by DKRZ This course information will help you aquire new software skills, do things more efficiently, understand how software works and why it takes time. Inclusive test cases and tutorials. Including working with the command line, Git, Testing, Debugging, Good Scientific Code and more.
	VAST Portal (Virtual Laboratory of Earth System Studies) by Institute for Meteorology, FU Berlin Learning slides about VAST from Ingo Kirchner (German only) VAST is a platform for the universal operation of models for investigating the earth system. The VAST system consists of various components that can be flexibly combined and in their entirety represent a system that provides networked resources for model simulations and the evaluation of the data. Included models are EBM, CLIMBER, PUMA, PLASIM, ECHAM, MPIESM, ICON, CosmoCLM, BOXMOX and ICON-CLM.
	Master Course: Uncertainties in environmental modeling – by University of Munich LMU Short lecture material - more information in personal exchange (with Stefanie Falk). Typology of uncertainties; Adaptive management; Approaches to deal with uncertainties in environmental modeling. This course summarizes necessary mathematical and statistical tools and concepts and how these are incorporated into the modeling realm. Training materials on GitHub
	CF Standard Name Table List of standard names for variables used in the international context. Refer to the Guidelines for Construction of CF Standard Names for information on how the names are constructed and interpreted, and how new names could be derived. Also have a look at the latest CF conventions.
	UNIX quick reference card and Gitlab Tutorial DKRZ published a short reference card for UNIX commands and a short introduction tutorial for Gitlab.

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	UCAR COMET Free collection of hundreds of training resources intended for the geoscience community by UCAR in disciplines such as aviation weather, climate, convective weather, emergency management, hydrology, numerical modeling, satellite meteorology and winter weather, among many others. Slides, lectures, exercises and also many video tutorials available for free.
	NFDI4Earth Academy Program NFDI4Earth addresses digital needs of Earth System Sciences. Earth System scientists cooperate in international and interdisciplinary networks. NFDI4Earth is a community-driven process providing researchers with FAIR, coherent, and open access to all relevant Earth System data, to innovative research data management and data science methods.
	Summer Schools in Europe Various summer schools ranging from human geography, natural sciences and computer science to environmental studies.
	Geoverbund ABC/J of FZ Jülich for early career opportunities As a geoscientific network, the Geoverbund ABC/J covers the entire spectrum of earth system sciences in the research region Aachen-Bonn-Cologne-Jülich. By bundling forces, expertise and infrastructures, it enables interdisciplinary and open-topic research. In doing so, solutions for urgent questions of the future are at the center of commitment in order to positively shape the world of tomorrow.
	eLTER: Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research The mission of eLTER is to facilitate high impact research and catalyse new insights about the compounded impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, pollution, and unsustainable resource use in terrestrial, freshwater, and transitional water ecosystems. eLTER provides researchers with access to over >500 sites and >50 larger LTSER Platforms across Europe

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