1020  Climate Change (3) Fulfills Physical/Life Science Exploration.
   Surveys the natural and human induced variations in the earth's climate. Topics include monitoring climate variations, global warming and the greenhouse effect, air-sea climate variations, the climatic effects of volcanic eruptions, and depletion of ozone in the upper atmosphere.

2810  Undergraduate Seminar (1)
   For students majoring in meteorology or for those students interested in finding out about employment opportunities in the atmospheric sciences. Invited speakers describe how they apply meteorology in their careers. Discussions of the current weather are also presented. Repeatable for up to 2 credit hours.

3000  Mountain Weather and Climate (3)
   Influence of terrain upon typical and severe weather, including local wind circulations and mountain snowstorms. Applications of mountain meteorology to related fields (air pollution, fire weather, road weather) and physiological responses to cold weather and altitude.

3100  Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 1210, MATH 1220, and PHYS 2210, or permission of the instructor.
   The course will apply basic principles of physics and chemistry to quantitatively describe the processes that control the chemical composition and evolution of the Earth's atmosphere. Special topics include acid rain, the ozone hole, and photochemical cmog production.

3110  Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences (3) Prerequisite: MATH 1220 and PHYS 2220. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   A survey of the atmosphere for physical science and engineering majors. Topics include the structure of the atmosphere and the fundamental forces that control fluid motion in the atmosphere.

3410  Meteorological Instrumentation and Computing (3) Prerequisite: MATH 1220 and PHYS 2220. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Fundamentals of meteorological instrumentation. Applications of computer techniques to visualize the three dimensional structure of the atmosphere.

3510  Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Boundary Layer Meteorology (3) Prerequisite: MATH 1220 and PHYS 2220. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Thermodynamics of dry and moist air, including adiabatic processes, parcel theory, and thermodynamic diagrams; boundary layer structure and processes, including turbulence, surface fluxes, diurnal cycle, boundary layer clouds, and pollutant dispersion.

3910  Special Topics (1 to 12)
   Intensive work related to a specific area in meteorology for undergraduates.

4999  Honors Thesis/Project (3)
   Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on their Honors degree.

5110  Dynamic Meteorology (3) Prerequisite: METEO 3110. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   To develop a theoretical understanding of atmospheric motions associated with weather and climate, concentrating on physical concepts, basic laws and equations, atmospheric circulation and vorticity.

5120  Applied Mathematics and Statistics for Environmental Scientists (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Numerical techniques used in atmospheric modeling. Statistical methods in environmental sciences including time series analysis, multivariate data analysis, statistical forecasting, forecast verification, and hypothesis testing.

5140  Mesoscale and Radar Meteorology (3) Prerequisite: METEO 3410 and 5110 or Instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Fundamentals of radar meteorology. Quantitative description of cumulus convection, multicell and supercell storms, mesoscale convective systems, tropical cyclones, planetary boundary layer, local circulations (thermal/terrain forcing), downslope windstorms. Emphasis is using observed characteristics to develop physical and dynamical understanding of phenomena over a range of scales.

5210  Physical Meteorology (3) Prerequisite: Upper division Undergraduate or Graduate student or Instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Atmospheric thermodynamics, aerosol production and removal, cloud and precipitation formulation, mixing and turbulence, solar and infrared radiative transfer in the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect.

5220  Cloud Physics (3) Prerequisite: Upper division standing or Instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Atmospheric aerosol and cloud microphysical processes; cloud optics and weather modification.

5410  Remote Sensing of the Environment (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   A quantitative overview of atmospheric remote sensing concentrating on tropospheric phenomena. Emphasis is placed on developing a basic theoretical foundation as well as detailed examination of selected contemporary problems in this rapidly evolving field.

5530  Synoptic Meteorology I (3) Prerequisite: METEO 3510 or Graduate student or Instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Applications of barotropic and quasi- geostrophic theory to synoptic meteorology. Jet stream and frontal dynamics.

5540  Synoptic Meteorology II (3) Prerequisite: METEO 5530 or instructor consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Three-dimensional structure of baroclinic weather systems; characteristics of operational numerical weather prediction models; operational forecasting.

5550  Mountain Meteorology (3) Prerequisite: Upper division Undergraduate or Graduate student. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Synoptic and mesoscale meteorology in complex terrain including orographically-modified cyclone evolution, frontal interaction with topography, terrain- and thermally-driven circulations, mountain waves, downslope winds, gap winds, and orographic precipitation.

5810  Weather Discussion (1) Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in METEO 5530 or 5540 or Graduate student or Instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Students prepare and present weather briefings on the current weather situation. Repetitive for up to 2 credit hours.