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2016-2017 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

How to Read Catalog Course Descriptions

Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.
 

Atmospheric Science (Graduate Courses)
  

  • ATMO 5101 - Atmospheric Science Seminar

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Discussions of current research or selected topics of interest. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ATMO 5301 - Individual Studies in Atmospheric Science

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A structured independent graduate studies course under the guidance of a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ATMO 5302 - Weather, Climate, and Applications

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Basic principles of atmospheric science, with particular emphasis on applications, including severe weather, air pollution, and global climate change.
  

  • ATMO 5316 - Dynamics of Severe Storms

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Observations and theoretical studies of severe storms. Conceptual and numerical models of storm structure and development.
  

  • ATMO 5319 - Boundary Layer Meteorology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Boundary-layer turbulent transfer processes are examined, including diffusion, mixing, diabatic modification, low-level jet formation, and moisture discontinuities.
  

  • ATMO 5321 - Cloud and Precipitation Physics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Processes of cloud droplet nucleation; initial growth of droplets and cloud droplet size spectra; theories of natural precipitation processes and microphysical parameterizations.
  

  • ATMO 5322 - Atmospheric Electricity

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Electrical processes in the atmosphere and in weather: ionosphere and global circuit, storm electrification, lightning physics and phenomenology, relationships between lightning and convection, measurement.
  

  • ATMO 5327 - Radar Meteorology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Applications of radar to investigation of precipitating weather systems. Emphasis is given to analysis and interpretation of radar data in conjunction with other data sources.
  

  • ATMO 5328 - Synoptic and Mesoscale Dynamics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Development of a conceptual and theoretical understanding of quasi-and semigeostrophic theory, omega-equations, PV-Thinking, cyclogenesis, frontogenesis, gravity waves, instabilities.
  

  • ATMO 5331 - Analysis of Geophysical Data Fields

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Theory, computation, and application of Fourier, time series, spectral, statistical, and data assimilation techniques.
  

  • ATMO 5332 - Regional Scale Numerical Weather Prediction

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Numerical solutions of geophysical systems, predictability of the atmosphere, and data assimilation techniques.
  

  • ATMO 5351 - Meteorological Data Acquisition and Instrumentation Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Exploration, design, integration and application of meteorological data acquisition and instrumentation systems.
  

  • ATMO 5353 - Meteorologic Field Experiments

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An overview of designing, planning, and completing atmospheric field experiments.
  

  • ATMO 6000 - Master’s Thesis

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • ATMO 7000 - Research

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours