Living with a changing climate is a master’s level course for those interested in the use of open climate and weather data for real-life climate mitigation and adaptation actions.
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to global climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, focusing on current actions, gaps, and sector-specific examples of how weather and climate risks form and how risk management is implemented. Participants will learn to access, process, and visualize open weather and climate data, with practical case studies illustrating its use in decision-making. During the course, participants get to practice their research and development skills through individual and teamwork assignments.
Learning goals:
- To become familiar with real-life actions and action gaps in climate change adaptation and mitigation at different levels of society.
- To be able to explain the concepts of weather and climate and be familiar with distributions of weather events and their extremes, to differentiate between local and global weather, and current vs. future phenomena.
- To know how to find open weather and climate data for a location and have an overview of different types of observations and models openly available. As well as identifying the existing applications for giving practical/usable information regarding the different aspects of the climate system.
- To know how to critically examine public discussion on weather and climate phenomena and claims, and to investigate and communicate how weather and climate data is used in real organizations and businesses, and what kind of needs for weather and climate data arise from organizational decision-making, culture, operations and/or its stakeholders.
Course level: Master
Pre-requisites: Climate.now or similar knowledge; Statistical tools for climate and atmospheric science recommended.
Scope: 5 ECTS
Available languages: English
Authors: University of Helsinki, Finnish Meteorological Institute, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Where to study:
- University of Helsinki. Course code: ATM389.
- Open Access Materials