ACDC 2025
Topic: Memory in the Climate System
Date: August 17 - 29th 2025
Location: Abisko Scientific Research Station, Northern Sweden
Application: Application deadline was 1st of March 2025. We received a large number of applications for a limited number of spaces. If you were not admitted this year you are welcome to try again next year.
Target: Advanced graduate students (PhDs).
Details will be updated continuously - watch this space.
There is limited funding from the Comer Family Foundation for applicants who cannot cover their own costs (priority will be given to underrepresented communities).
ACDC 2026
Topic: Greenhouse Climates of the Cenozoic - implications for the future (TBC)
Date: August 31 - September 16th, 2025
Location: Institute Pascal, Université Paris-Saclay
Application: Applications will open January 2026 with deadline 1st of March 2026.
Target: Advanced graduate students (PhDs).
Thanks to support from Institute Pascal we can support accomodation at the venue for all participants
The Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses (ACDC) are a series of yearly summer/winter schools organized by the Department of Earth Science and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research at the University of Bergen in collaboration with the University of Washington in Seattle.
The Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses is supported by the Comer Family Foundation.
For an introduction to the schools and the concept of ACDC please watch the video from our school on Greenland in 2014 (at the top of this page).
Organizational committe:
Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (UiB/Bjerknes)
Øyvind Paasche (NORCE/Bjerknes)
David Battisti (UWashington)
Steering committee:
Patrick Heimbach (UTexas)
Jake Gebbie (WHOI)
Natalya Gomez (McGill University)
Fiamma Straneo (Harvard University)
Peter Huybers (Harvard University)
Axel Timmermann (IBS Center for Climate Physics)
Partners in the summer school:
University of Bergen
University of Washington
University of Texas at Austin
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
McGill University
IBS Center for Climate Physics
Harvard University