Félix García
Meteorology Student Portfolio
Course Justification List
Educational Goal Summary:
This section is to summarize my educational goals section of the portfolio.
Course selections (major, minor and requirements).
Fall 2003:
Total Credits: 12
Stat 105 Intro to Stat (3 credits): Meteorology
requirement.
Chem 163 Gen Chem (4 credits): Meteorology
requirement, LAS Natural Sciences requirement.
Chem 163L lab (1 credit): See Chem 163 above.
First
semester chemistry lab required by Meteorology Department.
Mteor 111 Syn. Applic. (1 credit): Meteorology
requirement. Provides introduction to nomenclature, maps, etc. used by
meteorologists.
Mteor 201 Orientation (R credit): Meteorology
requirement. Introductory seminar: an overview of the atmospheric
sciences, the meteorology program, weather forecasting and
general university precedures.
Spring 2003
Total Credits: 6
Meteor 206 Intro Mteor (3 credits): Meteorology
requirement, 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.
Spring 2004
Total Credits:12
Chem 164 Gen Chem (5 credits):
Meteorology requirement, LAS Natural Sciences
requirement
Mteor 301 Gen Mteor I (4 credits):
Meteorology requirement. Provides information about
Global Distribution of temperature, wind and atmospheric constituents,
atmospheric termodynamics, radiative transfer, global energy balance,
storms and clouds and an introduction to Dynamics.
Mteor 443 Dyn Mteor I (3 credits):
ELective course. Provides information about
conservation laws, governing equations, circulation and vorticity.
Development of quasigeostrophic theory.
Fall 2004
Total Credits:5
Mteor 311 Intro Syn (2 credits):
Meteorology requirement. Concepts of weather map
plotting and analysis. Itroduction to forecasting and to the use of
real-time UNIDATA computer products.
Mteor
341 Atmos Phys I (3 credits): Provides basic laws of
thermodynamics, thermodynamics
of water vapor, mixtures of gases, stability, hydrostatics and cloud
physics.
Spring 2005
Total Credits:6
Mteor 342 Atmos Phys II (3 credits):
Precipitation physics, radar, atmospheric radiation,
atmospheric optics and atmospheric electricity.
Mteor 432 Inst (3 credits):
Seminar about measurement of meteorological variables
and instruments used, including surface, upper air, and remote sensors
measurement errors, signal processing, recording and archiving:
quality assurance.
Fall 2005
Total Credits:6
Mteor 411 Syn Mteor (3 credits):
Provides current weather forecasting and discussion.
Applications of atmospheric physics and dynamics in real-time weather
situations. Use of UNIDATA computer products
Mteor 454 Dyn Mteor II (3 credits):
Information about planetary boundary layer, linear
perturbation theory, atmospheric wave motions, baroclinic and
convective instability and mesoscale circulations.
Spring 2006
Total Credits:2
Mteor 417 Meso Lab (2 credits):
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.
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