Postgraduate taught courses
Weather, climate and environmental prediction are areas of immense importance for humanity, and there is consequently a strong demand for graduates trained in atmospheric and oceanic science. Our 1-year MSc courses are designed to provide science graduates (who have no prior training in atmospheric science) with the skills and knowledge base for a wide range of careers in these exciting areas.
Your experience as an MSc student in Meteorology at Reading will be enriched by working in an active research environment, but we also pride ourselves on the friendly and informal atmosphere and there are a wide range of social and sporting activities to get involved in.
There are two masters degree courses offered in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, leading to an MSc Degree or Postgraduate Diploma:
- MSc Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate (AOC): to provide a quantitative description of the physical processes (including the influence of the oceans) that produce weather and climate, and the methods used to simulate weather and climate on computers;
- MSc Applied Meteorology (AM): to provide the scientific background to a wide range of meteorological applications focussing particularly on the links between the atmosphere and the land surface environment.
- MSc Data Assimilation and Inverse Methods in Geoscience (DA) : to provide the mathematical background to data assimilation and inverse methods and the skills to apply data-assimilation methods to geoscience fields like meteorology, oceanography, hydrology, oil reservoir modeling, and cryosphere.
The following course is offered jointly by the departments of Mathematics and Meteorology, but enquiries should be directed to the Department of Mathematics:
- Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Oceans(MNMAO): to provide insight into the modelling of environmental problems particularly in meteorology and oceanography, together with practical competence in the application and analysis of numerical techniques.