COURSES

TAUGHT BY AL STAMM

• met 100 Meteorology (taught every semester)
  • Prerequisite: none
  • Purpose: To familiarize student with properties and physical principles governing the atmosphere, and what causes weather
• met 305 Climatology (taught every fall)
  • Prerequisite: met 100 or met 210
  • Purpose: To familiarize students with the physical and dynamic principles governing climate and how they might change, including some graphical and statistical techniques for handling climatic data, in order to foster an appreciation of the dependence on and interrelationships of humans to their environment.
• met 320 Humans and Atmospheric Change (taught every fall)
  • Prerequisite: upper division status
  • Purpose: Study of atmospherc change, how humans are affecting it, the consequences, and what we can do and are doing about it. Phenomena included are air pollution, acid deposition, desertification, urban climate, global warming and ozone depletion.
• met 335 Micrometeorology (taught every other fall)
  • Prerequisite: met 100 or met 210 and mat 220
  • Purpose: To learn the application of meteorology to man's immediate environment i.e., near the earth's surface, including radiation fluxes and turbulent transfer of temperature, heat and momentum.
• met 340 Air Pollution (taught every other spring)
  • Prerequisite: met 100 or met 210 and mat 220
  • Purpose: To familiarize student with the problems of and some of the solutions to air pollution and especially its relationship to meteorological phenomena. Included are air pollution sources, dispersion, dissipation, modeling and legislation and general effects on health, the economy and the climate.
• met 350 Meteorological Experimentation (taught every spring)
  • Lab: It may be taken with or without lab.
  • Prerequisite: met 100 or met 210 and che 212 or phy 213
  • Purpose: To familiarize students with experimental techniques and instruments available to measure atmospheric phenomena.
• met 497 Seminar (taught every spring)
  • Prerequisite: senior standing in meteorology
  • Purpose: To give student experience with doing library research in meteorology, writing a scientific paper, and giving scientific talks.

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A Stamm