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2.00 Credits
Computer-based modeling and simulations of watershed hydrology and river hydraulics. Numerical analysis applied to hydrologic transport and storage equations used in hydrology software. Modeling of basin hydrology and of river hydraulics. Other software used in surface hydrology. Software limitations and applicability. Lab.
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3.00 Credits
Scientific, engineering, historical, political, economic, and social aspects of water-resource management, allocation, and conflict. Characterization of water supply and demand. Application of quantitative hydrologic analysis to flooding, drought, water quality, and surface and subsurface basin management.
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1.00 - 16.00 Credits
Credit for off-campus professional experience with industry partners, non-profit organizations or government agencies.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of atmospheric physics including radiation laws, radiative transfer, atmospheric aerosols, cloud microphysics, physics of precipitation formation, atmospheric electricity, atmospheric optics. Meteorological radar.
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2.00 Credits
Basic concepts of numerical weather prediction (NWP) including: the history of NWP models, necessary assumptions, common methods of solutions to the primitive equations, model initialization and data assimilation, parameterization schemes, and ensemble forecast systems. Rationale for different NWP systems, sources of errors in forecasts, and best practices when interpreting output of numerical models.
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2.00 Credits
Atmospheric simulations using numerical models which solve the primitive equations of motion. Computational structure of a limited-area weather forecast model. Model domains which optimize numerical stability, computational expense, and physical realism in a remote-server environment. Hypothesis testing using a numerical weather prediction system.
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3.00 Credits
Development, motion, and life cycle of mid-latitude synoptic systems. Quasi-geostrophic dynamics, jet streak dynamics. Linear perturbation theory applied to Rossby waves and internal gravity waves. Atmospheric instability and atmospheric predictability.
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3.00 Credits
Balance requirements of the climate system, atmospheric and oceanic general circulation, history of earth's climate, causes of climate change, climate modelling with consideration of dynamical systems analysis as well as global coupled models.
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1.00 Credits
Analysis and forecasting of weather on hemispheric, continental, and regional scales. Student-led presentations and participation in forecasting competition.
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1.00 Credits
Analysis and forecasting of winter through spring weather on hemispheric, continental, and regional scales. Student-led presentations and participation in forecasting competition required.
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