我们的目标是了解和预测全球环境变化。我们研究了过去冰，海洋，大气，陆地表面和生物圈之间的相互作用，探讨了它们的当前过程，并对它们的未来动态进行了预测。人类对我们星球的影响正在改变大气，气候，冰盖，全球生物地球化学，生物多样性，土壤甚至海洋环流。这使全球变化成为国际科学议程的中心。全球变化小组的主要目标是预测地球系统变化的性质。这依赖于理解以该小组的方案为代表的系统的组成部分：大气，生物圈，冰冻圈，大陆和海洋。这些程序涉及野外工作，监视，实验，理论和模拟，旨在确定地球系统如何工作，它们过去的运行方式以及未来
Our objective is to understand and predict Global Environmental Change. We study how ice, oceans, atmosphere, land surface and biosphere have interacted in the past, we probe their current processes, and we develop predictions of their future dynamics. Human impacts on our planet are changing the atmosphere, climate, ice cover, global biogeochemistry, biodiversity, soils, and even ocean circulation. This puts Global Change at the centre of the international scientific agenda. A key aim of the Global Change Group is to forecast the nature of change in the Earth System. This relies on understanding the building blocks of the system, represented by the Group's programmes: Atmosphere, Biosphere, Cryosphere, Continents, and Oceans. These programmes involve fieldwork, monitoring, experimentation, theory and simulation, designed to determine how the earth's systems work, how they operated in the past and where they are going in the future.