3 credits
Summer 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Credit By ExaminationLower DivisionScience
(NRES 23000) An introductory course for both science and non-science students. A general study of the atmosphere, basic meteorological principles, and weather systems. Relationships of the changing atmosphere to climate ozone depletion, and other contemporary issues.
Learning Outcomes1Understand and describe a wide range of meteorological phenomena using fundamental principles of physics and chemistry.
2Learn a unified approach that relates the behavior of air parcels acting under forces to the observed weather and climate.
3Represent weather parameters quantitatively on maps and charts.
4Identify the principal threat to the stratospheric ozone shield and the gases responsible for the greenhouse effect.
5Understand the Coriolis effect and how it determines wind direction and circulation in cyclones and anticyclones in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
6Identify conditions that lead to the formation of hazardous weather.
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