Prerequisites:NATSC 103, NATSC 204 and MATH 136 Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration An introduction to weather and climate. Meteorological topics include the structure and composition of the atmosphere, cloud formation, fronts and severe storms and the reading and interpretation of weather maps. Also discussed are climate patterns, such as El Nino, climate forcing mechanisms and the evolution of Earth’s climate on time scales up to several million years.
