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3.00 Credits
The basic equations of state, continuity, and motion. Topics include wave motions, group velocity, theory of stratified fluids and internal waves turbulence.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Electromagnetic and acoustic wave propagation, absorption, and emission. Application to remote sensing, basic physics of dry aerosols, clouds and precipitation, fundamentals of atmospheric electricity, charge separation processes, and electrical field effects are also discussed. Other topics include air pollution physics, dispersal, and removal of particulate and gaseous materials from natural and anthropogenic sources.
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn the proper techniques involved in preparing and presenting a complete and professional weathercast with a heavy emphasis on communication skills, computer graphics, and on-camera delivery.
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3.00 Credits
Course discusses basic physical principles of remote sensing. Topics include an introduction, sampling issues, fundamental laws of electromagnetic waves, passive sensing, active sensing, and a brief survey of satellite sensors.
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3.00 Credits
Thermodynamics of dry and moist processes; elementary dynamical meteorology; description of weather systems and phenomena on all scales; structure and mechanics of the general circulation. Corequisite: MPO 552.
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3.00 Credits
Observed structure of large-scale tropical circulations, including the Trades, the intertropical Convergence Zone, the Walker circulation, and equatorial wave disturbances. An overview of tropical climate, including El Nino/Southern Oscillation, and tropical monsoons is included as well as the formation, structure, and dynamics of tropical cyclone interactions between tropical convection and large-scale circulations, equatorial waves, and flow instabilities.
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3.00 Credits
Course topics include the structure and dynamics of clouds, thunderstorms, and mesoscale convective systems, radar and satellite observations of clouds and precipitation, severe storm forecasting, mesoscale disturbances, frontal and orographic clouds, and precipitation.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Lectures, research projects or directed readings in special topics related to Meteorology and Physical Oceanography.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Lectures, research projects or directed readings in special topics related to Meteorology and Physical Oceanography.
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