Course Descriptions

CEE 063/263C. Weather and Storms -- Survey of daily and severe weather and global climate. Topics: structure and composition of the atmosphere, fog and cloud formation, rainfall, local winds, global circulation, jet streams, high and low pressure systems, inversions, El Niño, La Niña, atmosphere-ocean interactions, fronts, cyclones, thunderstorms, lightning, tornados, hurricanes, pollutant transport, global climate, and atmospheric optics. GER:2a (DR:5).

3 units, Aut. (Jacobson)

CEE 064/263D. Air Pollution: From Urban Smog to Global Change -- Survey of urban through global-scale air pollution. Topics: the evolution of earth's atmosphere, indoor air pollution, urban smog formation, effects of exposure to air pollution, visibility, acid rain, global climate change, stratospheric ozone reduction, Antarctic ozone destruction, air pollution transport across political boundaries, the effects of meteorology on air pollution, and the effects of air pollution and stratospheric ozone on human exposure to ultraviolet radiation. GER: 2a (DR:5).

3 units, Spr. (Jacobson)

CEE 263A. Air Pollution Modeling-- Introduction to numerical modeling of urban, regional, and global air pollution with a focus on gas chemistry, aerosol microphysics and chemistry, and radiative transfer. Stratospheric, free-tropospheric, and urban chemistry. Methods of solving stiff systems of chemical ordinary differential equations, including the Multistep Implicit-Explicit method, Gear's method with sparse-matrix techniques, and the family method. Numerical methods of solving radiative transfer, coagulation, condensation, and chemical equilibrium problems. Project involves the development of a basic chemical ordinary differential equation solver. Prerequisites: CS 106A or equivalent.

3-4 units, Win. (2000-2001) (Jacobson)

CEE 263B. Numerical Weather Prediction-- Introduction to numerical weather prediction. The continuity equations for air and water vapor, the thermodynamic energy equation, and the momentum equations are derived for the atmosphere. Numerical methods of solving partial differential equations, including finite-difference, finite-element, semi-Lagrangian, and pseudospectral methods. Time-stepping schemes: the forward-Euler, backward-Euler, Crank-Nicolson, Heun, Matsuno, leapfrog, and Adams-Bashforth schemes. Boundary-layer turbulence parameterizations, soil moisture modeling, and cloud modeling. Project developing a basic mesoscale model. Prerequisites: CS106A or equivalent.

3-4 units, Win. (2001-2002) (Jacobson)