AOSC610

Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean I

Prerequisite: Must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in MATH462; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department. Formerly: METO610. Equations of motion and their approximation, scale analysis for the atmosphere and the ocean. Conservation properties. Fluid motion in the atmosphere and oceans. Circulation and vorticity, geostrophic motion and the gradient wind balance. Turbulence and Ekman Layers.

Fall 2025

Da-Lin Zhang

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Madeleine Youngs

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Past Semesters

Da-Lin Zhang

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Da-Lin Zhang

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Da-Lin Zhang

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Da-Lin Zhang

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Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm

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Sumant Nigam

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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 3.16 between 193 students*

A-: 15.54%

A: 12.95%

A+: 10.88%

B-: 17.1%

B: 15.54%

B+: 10.88%

C-: 2.59%

C: 2.07%

C+: 2.59%

D: 0.52%

W: 3.11%

other: 6.22%

* "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.