All SCENARIO PhD projects are aligned within one or more of our seven science themes:
Climate and climate change on global, regional and local scales
- Coupled components: atmosphere, ocean, ice, land surface, biosphere
- Interpreting evidence from past climates
- Implications for sustainable living, energy supply, food production & security
Weather and natural hazards, extreme events and impacts
- Fluid dynamics and the fundamental processes of atmospheres and oceans
- Extreme events and links to flooding, wind storms and other impacts
- Improving prediction and understanding the limits to predictability
Hydrological cycle and processes
- Atmospheric humidity, cloud, precipitation and links with radiative transfer
- Hydrology, ground water, soil, vegetation and coupling with atmosphere
- Water supply and sustainability
Applied ecology and biodiversity
- Biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services
- Understanding and predicting the impacts of climate and land use change on ecosystems
- Ecology, society and conservation
Biogeochemical cycles
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosol
- Changes in land and freshwater use
- Factors influencing air, soil and water quality
Earth observation, remote sensing and near-Earth space
- Satellite applications and remote sensing from space
- Remote sensing from ground or aircraft
- Space weather, geomagnetism and electricity in the environment
Infrastructure systems and two-way link with the environment
- Renewable energy
- Urban areas and the built environment
