- Degree
- Master of Science
- Course location
- Köln
- In cooperation with
- University of Bonn
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- Courses are held in English. The Master's thesis must be written in English or, after approval by the examination committee, in German.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter and summer semester
- Application deadline
- 15 July for the following winter semester (October to March)
15 January for the following summer semester (April to September)
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The Master's programme in Physics of the Earth and Atmosphere addresses the application of physics to the system of Earth and to the system of the atmosphere, i.e. the classical topics of geophysics and meteorology. The course of study comes with two areas of specialisation, namely "Geophysics" and "Meteorology", to be chosen by the prospective student at the time of the application.
The compulsory modules in the "Geophysics" area of specialisation are:
• Geophysics of the solar system
• Advanced geophysical field course
• Space physics
• Direct current and electromagnetic exploration methods
In the "Meteorology" area of specialisation four out of the following five modules have to be chosen:
• Clouds and precipitation
• Atmospheric dynamics and modelling
• Radiation
• Atmospheric boundary layer
• Physical climatology
Modules common to both area of specialisation are "Prognostic Modelling" and "Inverse Modelling" and the modules of the research oriented second part of the course of study.
The four elective modules may be chosen from a large set of modules from mathematics, physics, geophysics, meteorology and more, both from the university of Cologne and our partner university in Bonn.