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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course provides an application of physics and calculus to the study of atmospheric thermodynamics. The course covers such topics as hydrostatics, conservation of energy, the Ideal Gas Law, temperature relationship to kinetic energy, specific heats, enthalpy, and entropy. Additionally, water and its transformations, the thermodynamics of dry, moist, and saturated air, and thermodynamic diagrams are covered. Prerequisites: PS 160 or PS 208, WX 353, MA 242.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course illustrates the applications of a broad range of statistical applications to meteorology, as well as more general data analysis techniques. The course will include the following topics: basic statistical properties for various types of spatial and temporal data collections, including the standard statistical measures of mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and variance. Additional application topics will include correlations, confidence tests, probability distributions, time-series sampling theory, as well as data processing practices including regression analysis, Fourier analysis, and Eigen-vector analysis. The meteorological-specific applications would include data assimilation error covariance functions, Model Output Statistics (MOS), Perfect Prog forecasts, statistical forecast models, and Ensemble forecasts of model uncertainties as well as a number of forecast verification metrics including such quantities as Probability of Detection, False Alarm Rate, and Critical Success Scores. The course will include a number of laboratory exercises using various computer software resources ranging from spreadsheet calculations through higher-level programming methods. Prerequisite: Any course in computer programming (EGR 115, or CS 118, or CS 223, etc.) or permission of the instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course provides an introduction to the world of weather prognostication. Topics include the traditional forecast methods based on weather analysis techniques, up through the latest computer-generated weather prediction models. The student is exposed to techniques for forecasting tomorrow's weather as well as seasonal weather trends. Prerequisites: WX 353, WX 354, WX 355, and WX 365.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course builds on the concepts learned in WX 356 (Synoptic Meteorology) by using the governing meteorological equations to explain what is causing the current weather, thereby integrating atmospheric dynamics principles into weather analysis and forecasting. The computer graphics programs introduced in WX 356 are used as primary analysis tools for the students. Individual and team lab exercises provide practice in applying principles and techniques learned in lecture sessions. Topics may include analysis and prediction of clouds, precipitation, flight hazards, and convective weather using conventional and model-based analyses. Diagnoses of vertical motion fields, atmospheric soundings, and spatial/temporal cross sections are also used to examine atmospheric stability, environments favorable for deep moist convection, and possibly mesoscale systems. Satellite imagery is also used when applicable. The student is expected to retrieve raw data from Internet sources and the department's computer system. Prerequisite: WX 356. Corequisite: WX 365.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course simulates a number of industry/agency operational weather environments. The student will acquire and evaluate the significance that weather impact variables have on all phases of the operational environment. Real-time as well as preprogrammed scenarios are used to provide the student the opportunity to become knowledgeable in the methodologies employed by decision-makers in flight and marine planning/operations, multimedia productions, and agribusiness operations. Prerequisite: WX 355.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Students will learn how environmental issues may give rise to socio-political instability around the world. This course will explore how development and execution of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, and ultimately, U.S. national security, can be impacted by emerging threats to nations from environmental health issues, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and natural resource shortages caused by rapid industrialization, population growth, and urbanization in less developed countries. It will also examine transnational threats from ozone depletion, deforestation, and climate change. In a seminar format, students and faculty will cover a variety of readings and discuss their conclusions. Students will have the opportunity to lead class discussions on assigned readings. Prerequisite: WX 201, HS 201 or permission of the instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This is the first course in atmospheric dynamics that uses calculus. The focus of this course is on the full development of the momentum equation on a rotating earth and the subsequent applications of this equation to atmospheric flows. Applications will include the concepts of geostrophic balance and the geostrophic wind, gradient balance and the gradient wind, hydrostatic balance, the hypsometric equation, and thermal wind balance. Synoptic examples will be examined to illustrate these concepts. Prerequisites: MA 243, WX 354, and WX 420.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This is the second course in atmospheric dynamics that utilizes calculus. The dynamical set of equations and expressions that govern atmospheric phenomenon will be developed and applied. These equations and expressions will include the primitive set of equations, a kinematic description of the atmosphere, the absolute and barotropic vorticity equation, and the quasi-geostrophic set of equations. Applications will include the use of these equations to better understand Rossby wave dynamics and the cyclogenesis process. Prerequisite: WX 490.
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