Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: zonal winds, the subtropical and polar-front jets and the Hadley, Ferrel and polar cells (heights exaggerated)
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Earth and Environmental Sciences
Climate science covers the variability of precipitation, temperature and soil moisture over years and decades and the extremes at their edges.
The model
From a degree of warming to a changed return period: how a shifted distribution turns a rare heat extreme into a common one
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a degree of warming to a changed return period: how a shifted distribution turns a rare heat extreme into a common one
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Working with climate projection data and downscaling; Extreme event attribution; Arctic risk.
For climate analysts, risk modellers, planners and advisers who need to read a projection, an attribution statement or a reanalysis field and know its scenario, its model spread and the confidence it carries.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Climate science, variability and change's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow climate science, variability and change on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, rivers and canals, and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
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The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
Nexus Standards at the AcademyThe Academy proposes how each discipline teaches toward the Nexus Standards; the mapping is open for review by the editors of the Nexus Standards.
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Climate science, variability and change.
Search termsClimate science, variability and change; Climate baselines and observations; Variability modes such as ENSO; Climate models and projections; Scenario families; Downscaling and bias correctionDerived from the Risk Academy page on Climate science, variability and change.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Climate science, variability and change, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in climate science, variability and change, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
Courses with this primary disciplineIn development
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
Start with IPCC, then Hawkins, then Hausfather.
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Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.