Climate Science
Climate varies across time and space, ranging from short-term extreme events to geological-timescale changes. These variations emerge from complex interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, ice, land surface, and living organisms, which are coupled to one another through a variety of physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes. In recent decades, human activity and its interactions with Earth systems have gradually become a significant factor contributing to climate change. Climate science aims to understand these interactions and feedbacks, and to determine how the climate system responds to forcing from both natural and human causes.
At BGU, we bring together observations, climate models, field measurements, and laboratory experiments to study climate dynamics, atmospheric and oceanic processes, and the feedbacks between climate and biogeochemical cycles across different scales. This research focuses on how climate change affects the cycling of greenhouse gases, the chemistry of the ocean, and marine ecosystems, and how these changes feed back onto the climate system itself, building a fuller picture of past, present, and future climate change.
