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 · Hero scenes
Hero scenes: methods and sources
Every Academy page opens on a three-dimensional scene of a real process in its context.
01Scenes
What each scene shows
Every scene is a teaching illustration of a real process, drawn from its governing relation; none is a forecast, an assessment or live data.
02Places
No fixed places
No scene is tied to a place or a past event.
03Loading
Small pages, scenes on demand
A page carries a drawn poster and a small loader. When the hero nears the view the loader fetches this page from the same site, checks the SHA-256 of the scene runtime and of the place data against the digests the page was built with, and only then runs them, on three.js 0.185.1 fetched with subresource integrity. Without JavaScript or WebGL, or with reduced motion requested, the poster or a still frame stays; the scene stops drawing when it leaves the view.
04Questions
Questions, answers and key terms
Is study here free?
Yes. Every course and learning material of Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium, is free to study, self-paced or with a cohort. Ordinary participation has no fee; paid work, internships and fellowships are separate arrangements.
What does completing a course give me?
A completion record: the course, its version, the date and what was assessed, private by default and shared by you. It stacks into discipline, department and programme achievements. A record states what was studied and assessed and does not certify competence; it is not a licence, a professional title or an employment status.
Where do the data and the places come from?
Every faculty teaches on a twin of a real place built from open data; each layer carries its provider, licence and date, and every result on the Academy states its source. Maps and figures are indicators for teaching, never an assessment of a place.
How do I take part beyond every course?
Form a competence cell of three to seven people, study a shared pathway, take a supervised assignment in the National Working Groups, or bring a cohort from your institution. For organisations.
Key terms
Term
Illustrative
A process drawn from its governing relation for teaching; not a forecast, an assessment or live data.
Term
Real place
A faculty’s twin box: relief and lines from the sources its provenance states.
ReportsContribute
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Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
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Each faculty, department and discipline opens on its own scene.