Master of Science - Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate

Gain a deep quantitative understanding of the climate system with University of Reading's MSc Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate.

This course will prepare students for a career in meteorology-related science and research, with a focus on: a quantitative description of the physical processes that produce weather, the physical and dynamical building blocks of our climate, and the numerical and computational methods used to construct state-of-the-art models of the climate system.

Whether students want to mitigate the impact of hazardous weather events, understand how our changing climate may affect the jet stream, or even look further afield and forecast space weather – or focus their efforts elsewhere within meteorology and climate science – Reading will help students develop their scientific and analytical skills they need.

Choosing MSc Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate means students will join Reading's world-class Department of Meteorology – the University of Reading is ranked 2nd in the world for research in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (Center for World University Rankings by Subject, 2017).

This course is fully accredited by the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) and is students first step towards becoming professionally accredited as either a Registered Meteorologist (RMet) or Chartered Meteorologist (CMet).