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Courses
(Click course numbers for more information) EAS6122 - Biogeochemical Cycles A multi-disciplinary exploration of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes that cycle the nutrient elements through the Earth system and thereby maintain a habitable planet. EAS6124 - Introduction to Oceanography This course is an introduction to the ocean sciences, with particular focus on the role of the ocean in the geological, biological, chemical, physical, climatic, and human aspects of the Earth system. The class covers also interdisciplinary aspects of oceanography like El Niño, Global Warming, the Carbon Cycle, Iron and Biogeochemical Cycles, Life in the Deep Ocean, Hydrothermal Vents, Oceanography from Space, Deep Ocean Explorations. EAS6130 - Earth System Modeling Description pending. EAS6132 - Introduction to Climate Change The climate of the Earth, its radiation budget, greenhouse gases and their sources and sinks, potential changes due to anthropogenic activities, detection of climate changes. EAS6136 - Paleoclimatology and Paleooceanography This course will explore the history of the Earth's climate, covering methods for reconstructing past climate and the mechanisms behind these climate changes. EAS6140 - Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans Description pending. EAS6145 - Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans This course provides a foundation for understanding the physical principles of remote sensing of the atmosphere and oceans. The course is designed as a collection of lectures and computer modeling laboratories. The lectures focus on the fundamentals of the interactions between electromagnetic radiation and atmospheric gases, aerosols and clouds, and ocean surfaces, covering the spectrum from the ultraviolet through the microwave. The labs provide hands-on experience in using remote sensing data for various applications in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Topics to be covered include aerosol and cloud property retrievals, ozone and air pollution characterization, vertical temperature and humidity profile retrievals, sea ice characterization, and retrievals of ocean color and sea surface temperature. The main goal of the course is to provide a broad conceptual framework for physical understanding the methodology and applications of remote sensing. EAS6212 - Geochemical Kinetics Prerequisites: EAS 6211 EAS6216 - Isotope Geochemistry EAS6490 - Advanced Environmental Data Analysis This course is an advanced introduction to environmental data analysis and intended for first year graduate students. The goal of this class is to provide a deeper understanding of the theories and applications underlying the statistical analysis of environmental data, both in the space, time and spectral domain, and to provide the students with a hands-on experience. Ideally in the end of this class you will have developed a series of computer programming tool boxes and theoretical skills that should immediately be available for analyzing and modeling data in your own research. Although some preview knowledge of probability and statistics is required, a background review will be provided. Concepts and notation will be reintroduced as needed. In this class you will learn (a) how to combine models, which quantify statistical or dynamical relationships with observations (b) time series analysis, (c) forecasting and extrapolation, and (d) signal decomposition. EAS6502 - Introductory Fluid Dynamics and Synoptic Meteorology An introduction to the fundamental concepts underlying our current understanding of atmospheric fluid dynamics and its relation to mid latitude weather processes. The course includes both a theoretical component and a synoptic meteorology component focusing on meteorological data, observational analyses, large-scale weather systems, mid latitude cyclone development, and numerical weather prediction. Prerequisites: EAS 6511 EAS6522 - Dynamics of the Tropical Atmospheres and Oceans Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics. The scales will range from local, through regional to global. The emphasis is on physical aspects of interaction and the modeling of these processes. Exercises will be set each week using a variety of models, ranging from one-dimensional mixed layer models to general circulation models. EAS6532 - Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations Prerequisites: EAS 4655 or EAS 6502 Prerequisites: EAS 3601 and (BIOL 4410 or BIOL 4418) EAS6795 - Atmospheric Aerosols Prerequisites: EAS 6410 and (EAS 6790 or CEE 6790) EAS8802 - Linking Weather and Climate Problems of weather and climate were historically treated separately in the field of atmospheric sciences, despite the fact that the real system is a continuum. In recent decades, the need to understand linkages between short-term weather fluctuations and long-term climate variations has increased drastically since the characteristics (e.g., frequency and intensity) of severe and hazardous weather (e.g., tornadoes and hurricanes) are projected to change as the global warming continues. The goal of this seminar course is to introduce to participants past observations, existing theories, and ongoing modeling efforts related to this topic through extensive paper review and class discussion. The emphasis will be on interactions between synoptic-scale weather variability (periods of about 1 week) and climate variations of a season or longer. EAS8803 - Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles An advanced class for graduate students in Oceanography and Climate Science that studies the basic equations governing rotating geophysical flows with application to the ocean circulation. This course includes a theoretical component on geophysical fluid dynamics and one involving a combination of observations, theory and numerical modeling relevant to understand the large scale ocean circulation. EAS8803 - Atmospheric Radiative Transfer The atmospheric radiative transfer is central to understanding the workings of the climate system. This course covers the physical principles, quantitative analysis, and numerical modeling of atmospheric radiation and its interaction with atmospheric constituents (gases, aerosol, and clouds) and the surface. Topics to be covered include the radiative balance at the surface, radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere, radiative heating/cooling rates, actinic fluxes, methods for solving the one- and three-dimensional radiative transfer, radiation codes in regional and global atmospheric dynamical models, among others. EAS8803 - Climate Seminar: Monsoons - Past, Present, Future We will cover the basics of monsoon circulation, examine various paleoclimatic approaches to the reconstruction of monsoon circulation (oceanographic records, cave deposits, lake records), and look at how monsoons might change as CO2 rises in the atmosphere. There will be an emphasis on the Asian Monsoon, but we will also consider examples from other monsoon systems. This course is an introduction to ocean modeling. It is intended for first and second year graduate students. The goal of the class is two fold. (A) Understand different types of ocean models of ranging complexity from simple 2D shallow water and quasi-geostrophic models, to layered and full 3D primitive equations ocean models. In particular during the class you will be able to derive the dynamical equations, understand the implications of physical assumptions made in the derivations and develop intuition for the applicability of each model class. (B) Provide a "hands-on" experience in implementing and using both large and regional scales circulation models. This part of the class relies on being able to use fluently at least a programming language of choice (e.g. Fortran, MATLAB). EAS8803 - Marine Ecosystem Modeling
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