Oct 29, 2025  
Spring 2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Spring 2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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ATM 102 - Weather and Climate


Introduces the nature and causes of common meteorological phenomena, severe weather occurrences, and climatic patterns. Topics include formation and movement of air masses and large-scale storms; techniques for weather prediction; weather satellites; hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms; cloud and precipitation types; the climatic history of the earth; and actual and potential effect of human activities on weather and climate, and of weather and climate on humans.

3 credits

Offered: This course is offered as both ATM 102 and EST 102 .

DEC: E

SBC: SNW



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