Emphasizes the role of individual and collective actions in achieving sustainability through the Sustainable Development Goals and the successes of the Millennium Development Goals.
Covers the Earth's climate system components, interactions, and energy balance, including the impact of anthropogenic forcings and the role of the biosphere.
Covers an overview of the climate system, including global issues, mechanisms of climate change, impacts on biodiversity, and the role of greenhouse gases.
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.
Delves into extreme weather events, their definitions, causes, and consequences, emphasizing the importance of understanding climate change in relation to these occurrences.
Explores predicting climate change through linear response operators, focusing on the nonequilibrium nature of the climate system and the challenges of climate predictability.
Explores climate definitions, snow feedback mechanisms, past climate variations, and future projections on air temperature, precipitation, and sea level, emphasizing the impacts and adaptations required.