ATMO 601 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics. (3-0). Credit 3. Basic Concepts of fluid dynamics; meteorological approximations and coordinate systems; simple models and wave motion; barotropic models.

ATMO 629 Climate Change. (3-0). Credit 3. Climate of geological and recent past; methods of assessing change; mechanisms, models, theories, impacts and prediction of climatic change.

ATMO 631 Climate Modeling. (3-0). Credit 3. A study of mathematical models used in simulation of climate. Development and structure of selected members of the hierarchy of models ranging from energy balance models to general circulation models. Applications to paleoclimate and future climate scenarios.