AOSC432

Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean

Prerequisite: AOSC431. Corequisite: MATH246. Credit only granted for: AOSC432, METO432, or AOSC632. Formerly: METO432. Equations of motion and their approximation, scale analysis for the atmosphere and the ocean. Conservation properties. Fluid motion in the atmosphere and oceans. Geostrophic/balanced and ageostrphic/unbalanced motion. Circulation, vorticity, and potential vorticity. Introduction to the boundary layer.

Spring 2026

Kayo Ide

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Spring 2025

Kayo Ide

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Past Semesters

Kayo Ide

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Kayo Ide

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Kayo Ide

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Corinne Hartin

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Raghu Murtugudde

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Rong-Hua Zhang

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.10 between 181 students*

A-: 9.39%

A: 23.76%

A+: 11.6%

B-: 5.52%

B: 20.99%

B+: 6.08%

C-: 4.42%

C: 5.52%

C+: 5.52%

D-: 1.1%

D: 3.31%

F: 1.1%

W: 1.66%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.