Climate Dynamics Ph.D. 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 .
- 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 713 Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions
CLIM 750 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
CLIM 751 Predictability of Weather and Climate
CLIM 752 Ocean Circulation Theory
CLIM 753 General Circulation of the Atmosphere
CLIM 759 Topics in Climate Dynamics - Statistical Methods
CLIM 759 Topics in Climate Dynamics - Climate Change
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 741 Nonlinear Dynamical 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 753 Observations of the Earth and its Climate
CSI 754 Earth Observing/Remote Sensing Data and Data Systems
CSI 758 Visualization and Modeling of Complex Systems
CSI 771 Computational Statistics
CSI 773 Statistical Graphics and Data Exploration
CSI 780 Computational Physics and Applications
CSI 854 Computing and Communication Systems for Earth Observing
CSI 909 Advanced Topics in Computational Sciences and Informatics
Policy on Transfer of Credits
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