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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in 3123 and 3223. This course is a lecture/laboratory course designed to provide students a physical understanding of atmospheric principles. Students are challenged to explain theoretical concepts and to demonstrate a mastery in understanding various physical processes including the theory and practice of weather analysis and forecasting, surface and upper air analysis, fronts and wave cyclones, satellite meteorology, sounding analysis, thermodynamic diagram, cross sections, forecasting, NMC models, MOS, radar meteorology, and severe weather. Communications skills are emphasized. (F)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in 4133, 4424. Structure and dynamics of convective and mesoscale phenomena including: mesoscale convective systems, severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, low-level jets, mountain waves and hurricanes. Discussion of the general behavior, characteristics, and dynamics of the formation and development of these phenomena, and the types of weather and hazards they produce. (Sp)
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Mathematics 1823, 2423, 243, 2443 and 3113 or 3413, and Physics 1205 or 2514, 1215 or 2524, or permission of instructor. Designed to acquaint non-meteorology majors - especially electrical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, math and hydrology graduate and senior undergraduate students - with the dynamics of hazardous weather (emphasis on deep convective storms) as well as its detection and numerical prediction. Although no knowledge of meteorology is required, all prerequisites must be satisfied. (Irreg.)
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in 3123, 3223. Survey of satellite meteorology and climatology. History of meteorological satellites, radiation, orbital mechanics, satellite systems and data processing, basic image interpretation, cloud-drift winds, precipitation, temperature soundings, tropical cyclone, mesoscale, and synoptic-scale analysis and forecasting, cloud, water vapor and precipitation climatology, radiation budget. Laboratory (Irreg.)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in 3223, 3613, Mathematics 3413 or 3113. Develops quantitative relationships between physical characteristics of targets illuminated by a pulse of electromagnetic energy and the quantities measured by weather radar. Capabilities and limitations of radar designs are studied relative to meteorological applications. Doppler principles, including interpretation of data, are provided. Polarimetric and phased array radar are introduced. Experience is gained in hands-on exercises with weather radars and comptuer based labs. (Sp)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in 3123, 3223 or permission of instructor. Interdisciplinary emphasis on mesoscale precipitation processes, applications of new hydrometeorological observing systems, and on the interactions between meteorology and hydrology during flood events. (Irreg.)
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0.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of subject matter; maximum credit 12 hours. Topics may include aspects of atmospheric dynamics and severe-storm forecasting, experimental design, economic meteorology, weather modification, climate, radiation, aviation weather, etc. (Irreg.)
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0.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 3113, Mathematics 3113. Transfer processes near the earth's surface, turbulence, the planetary boundary layer, air mass modification, fog formation, pollutant transport.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Mathematics 4163 or permission of instructor. Basic fluid dynamics, equations of motion, vorticity dynamics, scale analysis, shallow water equations, linear wave dynamics, gravity waves, Rossby waves, quasi-geostrophic motions. (F)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 5113 or permission of instructor. Shallow water theory in a rotating reference frame, waves and instabilities, thermal convection and chaos, internal waves, anelastic approximation, baroclinic instability, symmetric instability and frontogenesis, general circulation of the atmosphere.
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