CLIM095 - Applied Climate Science for Infrastructure Practitioners
Course Description
This course, offered by the Climate Risk Institute and delivered by leading infrastructure and resilience experts, provides an overview of the fundamental principles of climate change science. You'll learn about climate scenarios, the role of global and regional climate models in predicting climate behavior, and how to translate climate model outputs to support multi-scale impact assessments or infrastructure design.
Using examples from the built environment, you'll explore the impacts of a changing climate, risk mitigation and adaptation approaches, and the challenges and opportunities in design decision-making under climate change uncertainty.
This course is offered in partnership with The Climate Risk Institute:
Please note: This course is not eligible for the Lifelong Learning Alumni Discount.
Course Outline
In this course, you will:
- Gain insights into the fundamental principles of climate change science
- Understand the application of climate scenarios and global/regional climate models
- Learn how to translate climate model outputs for various infrastructure systems
- Explore impacts in the built environment and related risk mitigation/adaptation approaches
- Examine challenges and opportunities in design decision-making under climate change uncertainty
This course applies toward the following program:
Learner Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the physical basis of climate change science and major drivers of change
- Work with observed data sets and methodologies for quantifying changes and making inferences
- Comprehend how climate change is modeled through regional and global climate models
- Understand climate scenarios and the uncertainty in future climate projections
- Utilize climate projections data portals effectively
- Apply statistical and computing methods/tools to obtain climate information useful for engineering applications and uncertainty quantification
- Integrate climate parameters into engineering design
- Adapt infrastructure design codes, standards, and guidelines to changing climate conditions, recognizing associated challenges and opportunities
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Infrastructure and Climate Resilience Planning Micro-credential : Elective Courses