Courses

ATS 150: Global Climate Change
Energy budget of the earth, the greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, paleoclimate, projections of 21st century climate

ATS 350: Introduction to Weather and Climate
Behavior of the atmosphere and its influence upon human activities

ATS 351: Introduction to Weather and Climate Laboratory
Actual weather data, visualization of meteorological phenomena, and in-depth discussion of current environmental issues

ATS 606: Introduction to Climate
Exchanges of energy, water, and momentum through the atmosphere, surface, vegetation, and oceans. Climate variability, feedback processes, paleoclimates, and climate change.

ATS 742: Tropical Meteorology
Overview of the tropical atmosphere, monsoons, intraseasonal variability, hurricanes, theory of tropical convection and the large-scale circulation.

ATS 743: Interaction of the Ocean and Atmosphere
Ocean-atmosphere interactions in observations, theory, and models.
Time mean atmosphere-ocean circulations through climate variability and change.