Course Catalog Information (24-25)
MET 10
Weather and Climate Processes
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the principles of the sciences of meteorology and climatology. Topics include the history of the sciences; origin, evolution, and structure of the atmosphere, major atmospheric variables that determine the weather, global and local wind circulations, air masses and frontal systems, birth and development of extratropical and tropical cyclones and associated severe weather phenomena, weather map analysis and interpretation, objective techniques used by meteorologists to forecast weather, air pollution, atmospheric optics, global climate and the processes that produce climate change including "global warming."
Student Learning Outcomes
- Analyze and explain the objective techniques used by atmospheric scientists to forecast and understand our planet's weather and to predict future changes in our planet's climate .
- Assess and critique the impact of meteorology and climatology as sciences on local, national and international economic, environmental, ethical and political issues including climate change.
- Analyze and describe the general concepts behind atmospheric processes that affect our weather and climate.
Course Details
- Units
- 5 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 5
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- ESL 272 and ESL 273, or ESL 472 and ESL 473, or eligibility for EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Pre-algebra or equivalent or higher, or appropriate placement beyond pre-algebra
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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