GEOG 221 - Meteorology

(4 credits)
Prerequisite: Any 100-level natural science (BIOL, CHEM, GEOG, GEOL, PHYS) course or AVSC 107 or AVSC 110
 

See Addenda  for changes to this course, effective Spring 2018.

This course introduces the basic atmospheric processes and important properties of the Earth’s surface that create changeable patterns. Students will use state-of-the-art instrumentation to practice observing weather and learn the essentials of reading and forecasting with weather maps. Lectures and laboratories will focus on energy transfer, clouds, wind patterns, fronts, jet streams, precipitation, and various types of weather with impacts on society ranging from thunderstorms to hurricanes. Three hours of lecture and one two-hour laboratory period weekly. Offered fall semester. (CNSL; CQUR)