PHYS 404. Climate Physics.
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PHYS 404
Climate Physics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course covers the essentials of climate physics through the lens of one-dimensional, vertical atmospheric models. This includes shortwave and longwave radiative transfer, convection, phase changes, clouds, greenhouse gases, and atmospheric escape. This is an adequate level of detail for understanding Earth's climate, paleoclimate, anthropogenic climate change, or pursing studies of Solar System planets and extrasolar planets.
- Prerequisite(s): PHYS 230 or PHYS 251, PHYS 232 or PHYS 253, MATH 315 or MATH 325, and MATH 222
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken ATOC 404
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