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Courses
Schedule of Classes
- Meteorology 101
- Introductory Seminar: An overview of the atmospheric sciences, the meteorology program, weather forecasting, and general university procedures.
- Meteorology 111
- Synoptic Applications: Current weather discussions and introduction to synoptic-scale interpretation of meteorology.
- Meteorology 206
- Introduction to Meteorology: Basic concepts in meteorology, including atmospheric measurements, radiation, stability, precipitation, winds, fronts, forecasting, and severe weather. Applied topics include global warming, ozone depletion, world climates, weather safety, and atmospheric optics.
- Meteorology 298/398/498
- Cooperative Education: Required of all cooperative education students. Students must register for this course prior to commencing the work period.
- Meteorology 301
- General Meteorology I: Global distribution of temperature, wind, and atmospheric constituents; atmospheric thermodynamics, radiative transfer, global energy balance, storms and clouds, introductory dynamics.
- Meteorology 306
- Use of Weather Data in Agriculture: Instrumentation, collection, and analyses of weather data relative to crop production in the Midwest. Weather parameters are described by using computer application examples and laboratory excercises.
- Meteorology 311
- Introduction to Synoptic Meteorology: Concepts of weather
map plotting and analysis. Introduction to forecasting and to
the use of real-time UNIDATA computer products.
- Meteorology 321
- Meteorology Internship: Supervised practical
experience in a professional meteorological agency. Experiences may
include providing weather information for radio, TV, utilities, government
agencies, construction, or agribusiness.
- Meteorology 341
- Atmospheric Physics I: Basic laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamics
of water vapor, mixtures of gases, stability, hydrostatics, cloud
physics.
- Meteorology 342
- Atmospheric Physics II: Precipitation physics, radar, atmospheric
radiation, atmospheric optics, and atmospheric electricity.
- Meteorology
404/504
- Global Change: Biogeochemical cycles, ozone chemistry,
global energy balance, structure and circulation of the atmosphere and oceans, climate modeling, climate variablity; and
implications for agriculture, water resources, energy use, sustainable development, and public
policy. Human dimensions and ethical issues of global environmental change.
- Meteorology 406
- Climates of the Continents: The major climate controls and how they affect the world climate. Climate classification. Combining controls and classification to explain the pattern of climates of the different continents and the world.
- Meteorology 407/507
- Mesoscale Meteorology: Physical nature and practical consequences of mesoscale atmospheric phenomena. Mesoscale convective systems, fronts, terrain-forced circulations. Observations, analysis, and prediction of mesoscale phenomena.
- Meteorology 411/511
- Synoptic Meteorology: Current weather forecasting and discussion.
Applicatios of atmospheric physics and dynamics in real-time weather
situations. Use of UNIDATA computer products.
- Meteorology 417/517
- Mesoscale Forecasting Laboratory: Real-time computer analysis of current weather, with
emphasis on small-scale features. Studies of severe weather, lake-effect snow, CSI, cold-air damming.
- Meteorology 432/532
- Instrumentation and Measurements: Measurement of meteorological variables and instruments used, including surface, uupper air, and remote sensors; measurement errors, signal processing, recording and archiving; quality assurance.
- Meteorology 443
- Dynamic Meteorology I: Conservation laws, governing equations,
circulation and vorticity. Development of quasigeostrophic theory.
- Meteorology 454
- Dynamic Meteorology II: Planetary boundary layer, linear perturbation theory, atmospheric wave motions, baroclinic and convective instability, mesoscale circulations.
- Meteorology 455/555
- Dynamic Meteorology III: General circulation of the atmosphere, including energy, momentum and hydrologic balances. Weather forecast and analysis systems.
- Meteorology 490
- Meteorology 499
- Senior Research: Required of all senior meteorology majors. Research projects in collaboration with faculty. Written and oral presentations of results at the end of the semester.
- Meteorology 505
- Biometeorology: The heat exchange near the ground. Radiation, turbulence, conductance and evaporation as components of the heat balance. Temperature, wind and humidity conditions in the microclimate. Modification of the microclimate. Computer modeling of biophysical processes. Semester project required.
- Meteorology 528
- Atmospheric Physics: Physics of fluids as applied to the atmosphere: equations of motion, conservation laws; atmospheric waves, small to planetary scale; remote sensing by satellites.
- Meteorology 542
- Physical Meteorology: Planetary atmospheres, radiative equilibrium models, radiative transfer, the upper atmosphere, remote sounding from satellites.
- Meteorology 543
- Advanced Dynamic Meteorology I: The first half of a two semester sequence. Governing equations, scale analysis, simple types of wave motion in the atmosphere, instability theory.
- Meteorology 544
- Advanced Dynamic Meteorology II: Continuation of 543. General circulation and dynamics of zonally symmetric circulations, atmospheric energetics, nonlinear dynamics of planetary waves.
- Meteorology 561
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Basic concept of rotating fluid dynamics, governing equations and boundary conditions, dynamics of vorticity, potential vorticity and geostrophic motion, wave motion in a rotating system, dynamics of Ekman and Stewartson layers, ocean circulation.
- Meteorology 590
- Special Topics: Topics of current interest.
- A. Boundary-layer Meteorology
- D. Global Climate Systems
- F. Numerical Weather Prediction
- G. Satellite Observations
- H. Statistical Methods in Meteorology
- Meteorology 605
- Micrometeorology: Atmospheric boundary layer, structure and dynamics. Turbulence, soil influences, measurements and empirical relations for wind and temperature profiles near the ground. Simulation of boundary layer structure and dynamics.
- Meteorology 699
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