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Academic Year 2000/2001

Descriptive Meteorology
ASTR 135 FA

This course offers a descriptive survey of meteorology and of our atmosphere. Weather includes atmospheric processes such as air circulation, air temperature and pressure, clouds and precipitation, wind, weather fronts, lows and highs. Climate includes climate types mostly of North America, ice ages and interglacial periods and their causes, and past and current changes in climate and their influence on human history and our present environment.

MAJOR READINGS

One textbook

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two or three hour examinations and a final examination are probable.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course is open to all students and presumes no prerequisites in science or mathematics. It is intended for all with a curiosity about weather and its forecasts and maps in the media or about climate and its change.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NSM ASTR    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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