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AOSC Atmospheric and Oceanic Science ( Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences)AOSC200 Weather and Climate; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Physical Science (PS) Course.Prerequisites: MATH110 or MATH115. Recommended as a corequisite: AOSC201/METO201. Formerly METO 200. Broad survey of the state of knowledge and problems of atmospheric science. Origin and structure of the atmosphere, meteorological observations, weather maps, forecasting, satellites, energetics, wind, general circulation, storms, severe weather, climate change, air pollution. CORE Physical Science Lab (PL) course only when taken concurrently with METO 201. A Marquee Science and Technology Course designed for Non-Science Majors: http://www.marqueecourses.umd.edu/* Click here for more Marquee course information. AOSC201 Weather and Climate Laboratory; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Physical Science Lab (PL) Course. Corequisite: AOSC200/METO200. Formerly METO 201. Laboratory exercises to supplement AOSC200, including weather observations, weather map analysis, use of the Internet, forecasting practice and climate modeling. CORE Physical Science Lab (PL) course only when taken concurrently with METO 200. AOSC346 Cycles in the Earth System; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: MATH140, AOSC/GEOG/GEOL123, or permission of department. Recommended: MATH141, PHYS141, PHYS171, or PHYS161. Also offered as GEOG346, GEOL346. The Earth System operates through some fundamental cycles such as water, energy, and the carbon cycles. This course will build on GEOL/GEOG/AOSC123 starting with concept of feedbacks within the Earth System, global energy balance and the Greenhouse Effect. A brief introduction to the atmospheric and oceanic circulation will lead to the water cycle connecting the land, ocean, and atmosphere to the Earth System. Introduction to the Global carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles will be followed by the concept of long-term climate regulation and short-term climate variability. The concepts of cycles, feedbacks, forcings, and responses in the Earth System will be applied to Global Warming and Ozone Depletion. AOSC400 The Atmosphere; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: MATH141, PHYS161, PHYS171 or permission of department. Formerly METO 400. The atmosphere and its weather and climate systems. Composition of the atmosphere, energy sources and sinks, winds, storms and global circulation. The application of basic classical physics, chemistry and mathematics to the study of the atmosphere. AOSC431 Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: MATH240 or 461; PHYS270 and PHYS271 (Formerly: 263); CHEM103. Recommended: MATH246. The general character of the atmosphere and its weather and climate systems, phenomena and distributions of variables (winds, temperature, pressure and moisture). The formal framework of the science; the application of basic classical physics, chemistry, mathematics and computational sciences to the atmosphere. AOSC499 Special Problems in Atmospheric Science; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. AOSC610 Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Pre- or corequisite: MATH 462 or equivalent PDE (partial differential equations) course. Formerly METO 610. 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. AOSC614 Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: METO 610 or permission of instructor. Recommended: METO 611. Formerly METO 614. 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. AOSC620 Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: MATH 461 or equivalent Scientists Linear Algebra course. Formerly METO 620. Air parcel thermodynamics and stability; constituent thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. Cloud and aerosol physics and precipitation processes. AOSC637 Atmospheric Chemistry; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisites: CHEM 481 or METO 620. Also offered as CHEM 637. Formerly METO 637. Application of the techniques of thermodynamics, kinetics, spectroscopy and photochemistry to atmospheric gases and particles. Investigation of the global cycles of C, H, O, N, and S species; the use of laboratory and field measurements in computer models of the atmosphere. AOSC658A Special Topics in Meteorology: Carbon Cycle and Climate: Past, Present and Future; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. AOSC658E Special Topics in Meteorology: Data Assimulation; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. AOSC658N Special Topics in Meteorology: North American Hydroclimate; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. AOSC670 Physical Oceanography; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department. Also offered as GEOL 670. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: GEOL 670 or METO 670. Formerly METO 670. Ocean observations. Water masses, sources of deep water. Mass, heat, and salt transport, gochemical tracers. Western boundary currents, maintenance of the thermocline. Coastal and estuarine processes. Surface waves and tides. Ocean climate. AOSC680 Introduction to Earth System Science; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. An introduction to the study of the earth as a system: atmosphere, oceans, land, cryosphere, solid earth, and humans. Cylcing of materials and energy in the earth system: the energy cycle, the hydrologic cycle, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle. Climate processes and variability:land-atmosphere, ocean-atmosphere, biosphere-climate, and human interactions, short- and long-term variability in climate. AOSC798 Directed Graduate Research; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Course intended for those students not yet admitted to PhD candidacy to work on research with a professor. AOSC898 Pre-Candidacy Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG/S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. AOSC899 (PermReq) Doctoral Dissertation Research; (6 credits) Grade Method: S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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