Introduces atmospheric composition, focusing on geochemical cycles, atmospheric lifetimes, and the impacts of gases and aerosols on health and climate.
Explores the importance of climate change for snow scientists, covering definitions, effects of continentality and elevation, snow cover classification, and the state of the cryosphere.
Emphasizes the role of individual and collective actions in achieving sustainability through the Sustainable Development Goals and the successes of the Millennium Development Goals.
Explores the carbon cycle, its distribution in different reservoirs, and the microbiological transformations of carbon, emphasizing its interplay with other global cycles.