Climatology Course
This course equips you with essential skills for regional climate analysis using real-world data. You will learn to source and prepare observations, detect trends and extremes, connect them to physical processes, and produce clear, actionable insights for environmental planning, risk assessment, and decision-making in South African contexts.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical expertise in designing and conducting robust regional climate studies. Master framing precise questions, choosing appropriate datasets, and handling data preparation, quality control, and homogenisation. Develop hands-on skills in trend detection, extremes analysis, time series techniques, and connecting findings to physical drivers, impacts, risks, uncertainties, and reproducible reporting.
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Develop skills
- Design effective regional climate studies by formulating sharp, decision-focused questions.
- Analyse climate trends using regression, Mann-Kendall tests, and extremes indicators.
- Construct reliable climate datasets through quality control, infilling, gridding, and homogenisation.
- Interpret climate risks by linking trends to effects on water resources, health, and ecosystems.
- Produce reproducible reports with full documentation of data, code, and credible references.
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