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0.00 Credits
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Prerequisite:
Separate File
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5.00 Credits
Fundamentals of hydrostatics, thermodynamics, radiation, cloud physics, and atmospheric chemistry. Offered: A.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of weather systems; atmospheric observations and data assimilation. Elementary manual and computer-aided synoptic analysis techniques. Interpretation of satellite and ground-based observations. Kinematics. Fronts and frontogenesis; life cycles of extratropical cyclones; related mesoscale phenomena. Numerical weather prediction; interpretation of forecast products. Offered: Sp.
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3.00 Credits
Basic equations governing atmospheric motions and their elementary applications; circulation and vorticity; dynamics of midlatitude disturbances. Offered: A.
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5.00 Credits
Wave dynamics, numerical prediction, development of midlatitude synoptic systems, and general circulation. Offered: W.
Prerequisite:
either ATM S 441 or ATM S 503
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4.00 Credits
Eulerian equations for mass, motion; Navier- Stokes equation for viscous fluids, Cartesion tensors, stress, strain relations; Kelvin’s theorem, vortex dynamics; potential flows, flows with high, low Reynolds numbers; boundary layers, introduction to singular perturbation techniques; water waves; linear instability theory. Offered: jointly with AMATH 505/OCEAN 511; A.
Prerequisite:
AMATH 403 or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Descriptive, quantitative aspects of earth as biogeochemical system. Study of equilibria, transport processes, chemical kinetics, biological processes; their application to carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, other elemental cycles. Stability of biogeochemical systems; nature of human perturbations of their dynamics. Offered: jointly with OCEAN 523/CHEM 523; Sp.
Prerequisite:
permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Dynamics of rotating stratified fluid flow in the atmosphere/ocean and analogues. Equations of state, compressibility, Boussinesq approximation. Geostrophic balance, Rossby number. Poincare, Kelvin, Rossby waves, geostrophic adjustment. Ekman layers. Continuously stratified dynamics: Inertia-gravity waves, potential vorticity, quasigeostrophy. Offered: jointly with OCEAN 512; W.
Prerequisite:
ATM S/AMATH 505/OCEAN 511
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3.00 Credits
Structure of the water mo le. Crystallographic structures of ice. Electrical, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties of ice. Growth of ice from vapor and liquid phases. Offered: jointly with ESS 531; alternate years; W.
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3.00 Credits
Snow and ice climatology. Formation of the ice crystals in clouds. Snow metamorphism. Transfer of radiative, sensible, and latent heat at snow and ice surfaces. Remote sensing of snow and ice. Growth and melt of sea ice. Climatic records from ice. Offered: jointly with ESS 532; alternate years; A.
Prerequisite:
permission of instructor
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