Prerequisites: MATH 141, PHYS 161, PHYS 171 or permission of department.
Course Description: The atmosphere and its weather and climate systems. Composition of the atmosphere, energy sources and sinks, winds, storms, global circulation. The application of basic classical physics, chemistry, and mathematics to the study of the atmosphere.

Prerequisites: MATH 462 or equivalent PDE (partial differential equations) course.
Course Description: Equations of motion and their approximation, scale analysis for the atmosphere and the ocean. Conservation properties. Fluid motion in the atmosphere and oceans. Circulation and vorticity, geostrophic motion and the gradient wind balance. Turbulence and Ekman Layers.

Prerequisites: METO 610.
Course Description: Waves and instabilities in the atmosphere and the ocean. Gravity, Rossby, coastal and equatorial waves. Flow over topography. Dynamic instabilities including barotropic, baroclinic, inertial, and instabilities of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system. Stationary waves and multiple equilibria.

Prerequisites: METO 610 or permission of instructor.
Course Description: Solid foundation for atmospheric and oceanic modeling and numerical weather prediction: numerical methods for partial differential equations, an introduction to physical parameterizations, modern data assimilation, and predictability.

Prerequisites: STAT 400 or equivalent introductory statistics course.
Course Description: Parametric and non-parametric tests; time series analysis and filtering; wavelets. Multiple regression and screening; neural networks. Empirical orthogonal functions and teleconnections. Statistical weather and climate prediction, including MOS, constructed analogs. Ensemble forecasting and verification.

Course Description: Various special topics in meteorology are given intensive study. The topic of concentration varies, from semester to semester and depends on student and faculty interests. Often, specialists from other institutions are invited to the campus on a visiting lectureship basis to conduct the course.

Prerequisites: METO 610 or permission of instructor.
Course Description: Topics include: physics and chemistry of water, in situ and remote sensing, water masses, high latitude and boundary circulation, wind-driven circulation/dynamics, surface fluxes, tropical circulation, the carbon cycle, paleo-oceanography, and numerical modelling.

Prerequisites: MATH 462.
Corequisite: METO 610.
Course Description: Observations and theories of the seasonal changes in the ocean circulation and temperature, and interactions with the atmosphere. Equations of motion and theories of wind-driven circulation. Mixed layer observations and theories. Midlatitude and equatorial waves. Seasonal budgets of momentum, fresh water, and heat. El Nino/Southern Oscillation. Interannual variability and atmosphere-ocean coupling.