Course Description

Geography 208a/b Weather and Climate

Fundamentals of the physical processes underlying weather and climate; radiant energy, energy balances, clouds, atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics; principles of the Greenhouse Effect", mid-latitude cyclones and aspects of weather forecasting, severe weather phenomenon and atmospheric optics.

Prerequisite: Geography 020E or an 020-089 level Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, or Physics course.

2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours, half course.

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