Climate and Meteorology is a discipline concerned with the study of atmosphere phenomena and focusing on climate processes, precipitation, temperature, currents, and electric discharge. It also aims at forecasting these phenomena and the changes or sequence between them. The activity in this field involves the research of climatology in terms of probing, analysing, evaluating and interpreting the meteorological data with the purpose of forecasting the weather and specific climatic conditions in the different geographical areas of the world. It is also preoccupied with the development of new meteorological theories and the improvement of existing ones, with the improvement of meteorological methods, techniques and instruments.
As a meteorologist you can practice your profession in government agencies, private consulting and research services, utilities and radio and television stations. A career in meteorological research can prove to be a very exciting endeavour as it can take the practitioner in some of the most unexplored and unknown places on Earth.
Global climate change is mainly caused by emissions arising from our daily energy use. "Think globally, act locally" is necessary to trigger urgent and drastic changes. Energy use and solutions are local, but markets and technologies are global. Finding feasible pathways to transform energy systems poses huge challenges for all of us.
As competition policy becomes increasingly relevant in both the public and private sectors, there is a great need for professionals prepared to address market regulation issues.
Would you like to gain a deeper understanding of the physical world around you? Would you like to use man’s largest instruments, such as CERN’s accelerator or the large telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile? Would you like to produce advanced computer models of the Earth’s atmosphere and interior? The Master Programme in Physics provides you with tools to understand the inner workings of the world.
The MSc Climate Studies is targeted to students who wish to focus on the scientific insights in facing climate change and on social economic implications of climate change.
Atmospheric science is an interdisciplinary field. It includes the understanding of the links between human activity and chemical and physical properties of the atmospheric system. The area of atmospheric science also covers the environmental impacts on humans and ecosystems.
The two-year M.Sc. in Science for Sustainable Development is an interdisciplinary master’s programme comprising both theoretical and empirical studies in the natural sciences, social sciences and technology. The focus is on the global environment and sociotechnical issues such as climate change, the availability of water and energy and to help guide their development towards socially appropriate ends.
Climate-related research is highly relevant for society, scientifically interesting and challenging. Human-induced global climate change has grown into a sense of urgency over the last decades.
The aim of the EnvEuro programme is to give students a basis for working with European environmental problems with a regional as well as an international basis. It is a 2-year MSc programme offered by a consortium of four European Universities within the EuroLeague for Life Sciences network.
Earth, Life and Climate is an interdisciplinary programme combining biology, (geo)chemistry and earth sciences.
The University of Exeter
This new taught Masters programme (first intake October 2006) addresses some of the most important issues affecting society at the present time, namely, present and future climate changes and their economic and social impacts.
Stockholm University
The Master’s Programme in Quaternary Science and Climate Development provides students with in-depth knowledge about climate and environmental changes, in different time-scales, and in different geographical regions. Knowledge about natural and anthropogenic climate changes is important for the understanding of the development of the Earth during the Quaternary Period (the last 2.6 million years).
University of Bern
The MSc in Climate Sciences is a specialised master programme and is part of the Graduate School of Climate Sciences of the University of Bern. The curriculum consists of 120 ECTS, of which 8 ECTS are compulsory courses, 52 ECTS are elective courses at the University of Bern and ETH Zurich, and 60 ECTS are reserved for the master thesis.