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A&O SCI 102Climate Change and Climate Modeling

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Global environmental issues in climate change due to human activities or natural climate variations. Quantitative introduction to new science of climate modeling to understand and predict these changes. Physical processes in climate system. Atmospheric and oceanic circulation. El niño and year-to-year climate prediction. Greenhouse effect and global warming.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Enforced requisites: Mathematics 3C or 32A, Physics 1B or 6C, with grades of C or better.

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grade C or better in
  • all of
    • one of
      • MATH 3C
      • MATH 32A
    • one of
      • PHYSICS 1B
      • PHYSICS 6C
  • · "PHYSICS 6C" is not in this catalog version

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

A&O SCI 102

  • MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
    • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
      • MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
  • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
      • MATH 1Precalculus

3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 17 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

A&O SCI 102

  • A&O SCI 112Climate Change Assessment
    • A&O SCI 121Climate Mitigation Solutionsanother path to it
  • A&O SCI 121Climate Mitigation Solutions

2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Spring 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.