Global Climate and Weather Cycles

Catalog description

Energy and mass exchanges. Global atmospheric circulation; surface and upper-air flows. Index cycle: zonal and meridional atmospheric circulations. Teleconnections and atmospheric oscillations: NAO, PNA, PDO, AO, ENSO, and AMO. Interactions between atmospheric oscillations and surface climatic variables in the United States and around the world. Weather cycles, natural climatic variability and climate change. Drought indices. Spatial and temporal statistical domains used in climatic data analysis. May be taught concurrently with GRY 635. Cannot receive credit for both GRY 535 and GRY 635. Prerequisite: GRY 137 and GRY 138 ; and MTH 340 or AGR 330 or PSY 200 or QBA 237 or SPR 328 .