GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the primary characteristics of the general circulation. Audience: Graduate 2. Summarize the historical development of understanding the general circulation. Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze statistical properties of climatological data sets. Audience: Graduate 4. Describe the fundamental role of heat fluxes and momentum fluxes. Audience: Graduate 5. Distinguish forcing and behavior by synoptic and planetary scale waves. Audience: Graduate 6. Describe wave - mean flow interaction using EP flux theory. Audience: Graduate 7. Mathematically describe wave propagation and critical surface interaction. Audience: Graduate 8. Summarize modes of climate variation including the QBO, ENSO, NAM, and SAM. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the primary characteristics of the general circulation. Audience: Graduate 2. Summarize the historical development of understanding the general circulation. Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze statistical properties of climatological data sets. Audience: Graduate 4. Describe the fundamental role of heat fluxes and momentum fluxes. Audience: Graduate 5. Distinguish forcing and behavior by synoptic and planetary scale waves. Audience: Graduate 6. Describe wave - mean flow interaction using EP flux theory. Audience: Graduate 7. Mathematically describe wave propagation and critical surface interaction. Audience: Graduate 8. Summarize modes of climate variation including the QBO, ENSO, NAM, and SAM. Audience: Graduate