Meteorology

Description - Participants will use scientific process skills and quantitative analysis to demonstrate an understanding of the factors that influence world climate and climate change through the interpretation of climatological data, graphs, charts, and images.

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Subject Content:

1. Understanding the weather vs the climate

2. Composition and evolution of the Earth's atmosphere

3. Earth's radiative energy balance

4. Oceanic and atmospheric circulation mechanisms that affect climate

5. Climatic zones and their causes

6. Recent Climate trends

7. Understand climate reconstructions from different methods

8. Projected changes in climate