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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 This course provides a survey of the scientific and societal issues associated with weather and climate variability and change. The course will examine physical phenomena observed in the Earth's weather and climate, providing sufficient scientific and technical background to enable students to critically examine arguments being discussed by policymakers and the public at large. The course will also review the current debate on climate change from a scientific point of view, with a focus on those aspects that have the largest potential impact on global society. Prerequisites None. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Introduction to a core set of statistical methods that have proven useful to modern climate and predictability research. Topics include detecting and attributing climate change, describing climate variability with empirical orthogonal functions, statistical forecasting with regression and time series models, and identifying coupled patterns of variability with canonical correlation analysis. Prerequisites Undergraduate-level linear algebra and STAT 344 (or equivalent), or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Provides modern understanding of ocean, atmosphere, and land based on fundamental physical laws. Describes current climate and physical processes by which climate is maintained. Covers theoretical models of general circulation of atmosphere, including time mean and transient behavior. Describes basics of ocean circulation, and interactions between ocean and atmosphere. Reviews past climate change; stratosphere and its interactions with troposphere; and role of land processes in modulating climate. Prerequisites BS or MS in mathematics or a physical science, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with PHYS 676 Covers basic conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy; and scaling analysis of equation of motion and thermodynamic equation. Discusses balanced flows in atmosphere, such as geostrophic wind and its vertical shear, and thermal wind relationship. Also explores circulation and vorticity; role of atmospheric boundary layer in mass, momentum, and energy transfer; synoptic scale motions; and role of gravity and Rossby waves in controlling general circulation of atmosphere. Prerequisites BS or MS in mathematics or a physical science, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Introduces climatology and dynamics of oceans. Covers nature of seawater, heat, and salt budgets; general circulation of the ocean, including the Gulf Stream and thermohaline circulations; dynamics of wind-driven ocean circulation; and processes influencing biological and chemical behavior. Prerequisites BS or MS in mathematics or a physical science, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Provides comprehensive observational and mechanistic understanding of El Ni o and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena. Topics include observations and theories of seasonal and interannual changes in ocean circulation and temperature and interactions with atmosphere; equations of motion and theories of wind-driven circulation; mixed layer observations and theories; midlatitude and equatorial ocean waves; interannual variability and atmosphere-ocean coupling; and tropical oceanography and meteorology. Prerequisites CLIM 712 or 711 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Interdisciplinary course providing detailed description of surface energy and water balance over land, and radiative and turbulent transfer. Introduces numerical techniques for modeling land surface and applications in weather, climate, and hydrologic forecasting and simulation. Includes hands-on experience with land surface models in computer laboratory, including sensitivity experiments to reinforce theoretical concepts. Exposure to contemporary research through reading and reviewing seminal journal papers. Prerequisites BS or MS in mathematics or physical science, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Foundation and theory of computational methods for atmosphere and ocean modeling, with special emphasis on finite-difference and spectral methods. Topics include accuracy, consistency, convergence and stability; time stepping schemes; nonlinear computational stability; energy and enstrophy conserving schemes for momentum equations; staggered and curvilinear grids; alternate vertical coordinate systems; implicit and split-explicit barotropic mode solution; pressure gradient errors and vorticity constraints; spectral methods for atmospheric models; and treatment of model physics. Prerequisites CLIM 712 or 711 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Introduces geophysical fluid dynamics, the study of rotating stratified flows. Covers hydrostatics; equations of motion, gravity wave dynamics, and stratified flow; effects of rotation, midlatitude dynamics, Rossby number and quasigeostrophic expansion; beta plane approximation; and equatorial Kelvin and Rossby waves. Prerequisites CLIM 711, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Covers fundamental aspects of weather and climate predictability. Using simple dynamical models, illustrates basic theorems on divergence of trajectories in phase space and fundamental periodicity properties of flow. Explores paradigms of turbulence, barotropic and baroclinic instability, and optimal linear growth to describe fundamental error growth mechanisms. Examines examples from real weather forecasting systems. Studies predictability of time averages with simple dynamical models and experiments using complex general circulation models and historical data analysis. Emphasizes roles of boundary conditions of sea surface temperature and soil moisture. Prerequisites CLIM 711 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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