Curriculum

Required classes and relevant electives for the Climate Dynamics Program are listed below. For detailed information on courses, see the Catalog Descriptions, Course Schedules or individual web sites. Web sites can be reached by clicking on CLIM course names in the list or, for CSI classes, going to the Computational and Data Sciences class list .  For undergraduate CLIM courses, see Climate Dynamics Undergraduate Offerings.

• Required fundamental climate science courses:
  • CLIM 710 Introduction to the Physical Climate System
  • CLIM 711 Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics
  • CLIM 712 Physical and Dynamical Oceanography
  • CLIM 714 Land-Climate Interactions*
• Required core computational courses:
  • CLIM 715 Numerical Methods for Climate Modeling
  • CSI 700 Numerical Methods
  • CSI 701 Foundations of Computational Sciences
• Required climate seminar:
  • CLIM 991 (taken three times)
• Electives of particular interest to Climate Dynamics students include:
  • CLIM 690 Scientific Basis of Climate Change*
  • CLIM 713 Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions
  • CLIM 750 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • CLIM 751 Predictability of Weather and Climate
  • CLIM 752 Ocean General Circulation
  • CLIM 753 General Circulation of the Atmosphere
  • CLIM 759 Introduction to Tropical Climate System*
  • CLIM 762 Statistical Methods in Climate Research
  • CLIM 763 Advanced Statistical Methods in Climate Research*
  • CLIM 996 Doctoral Reading and Research
  • CSI 655 Introduction to Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
  • CSI 702 High Performance Computing
  • CSI 703 Scientific and Statistical Visualization
  • CSI 710 Scientific Databases
  • CSI 720 Fluid Mechanics
  • CSI 721 Computational Fluid Dynamics I
  • CSI 722 Computational Fluid Dynamics II
  • CSI 723 Fluid Mechanics II
  • CSI 729 Topics in Continuum Systems
  • CSI 742 The Mathematics of the Finite Element Method
  • CSI 744 Linear and Nonlinear Modeling in the Natural Sciences
  • CSI 746 Wavelet Theory
  • CSI 754 Earth Observing/Remote Sensing Data and Data Systems
  • CSI 758 Visualization and Modeling of Complex Systems
  • CSI 750 Earth Systems and Global Changes
  • CSI 771 Computational Statistics
  • CSI 773 Statistical Graphics and Data Exploration
  • CSI 853 Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion
  • CSI 854 Computing and Communication Systems for Earth Observing
  • CSI 909 Advanced Topics in Computational Sciences and Informatics
  • EOS 670 Introduction to Atmosphere and Weather
  • EOS 753 Observations of the Earth and its Climate
  • EOS 855 Introduction to Mesoscale Atmospheric Modeling

[* New class or new link, January 2012]

Policy on Transfer of Credits

For more information, contact the Graduate Coordinator.