A&O SCI 112Climate Change Assessment
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Projections of future anthropogenic climate change and understanding of natural climate variability depend on international climate model intercomparison projects, on large observing systems coordinating space and ground observations, and on multi-scientist climate assessments. Lectures, readings and projects with presentations address current issues in the scientific literature on assessment of climate change for students with prior background in the atmospheric, oceanic and environmental sciences.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: one course from Life Sciences 30B, 40, Mathematics 3B, 31B, Statistics 10, 12, or 13. Recommended requisite: one course from 51, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, M106, 107, Environment 175, or equivalent background for reading quantitative scientific literature in climate change.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textBruinTree reads · Recommended
needs reviewconfidence 0.40 · from text- A&O SCI 51
- A&O SCI 101
- A&O SCI 102
- A&O SCI 103
- A&O SCI 104
- A&O SCI 105
- A&O SCI M106
- A&O SCI 107
- ENVIRON 175
- equivalent background for reading quantitative scientific literature in climate change
- · "A&O SCI 105" is not in this catalog version
- · could not read "equivalent background for reading quantitative scientific literature in climate change" (no course number found)
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
A&O SCI 112
- A&O SCI 51Fundamentals of Climate Science
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
- A&O SCI 101Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
- ENVIRON 175Programming with Big Environmental Datasets
- STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studiesanother path to it
- A&O SCI 102Climate Change and Climate Modeling
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- A&O SCI 103Physical Oceanography
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- A&O SCI 104Fundamentals of Air and Water Pollution
- A&O SCI M106Applied Climatology: Principles of Climate Impact on Natural Environment
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- A&O SCI 107Biological Oceanography
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- LIFESCI 40Statistics of Biological Systems
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studies
- STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
15 direct requisites. Showing 60 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
A&O SCI 112
- A&O SCI 121Climate Mitigation Solutions
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.