A&O SCI 141Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Physical and chemical processes that determine composition of atmosphere and its implications for climate, ecosystems, and human welfare. Origin of atmosphere. Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur, trace metal cycles. Climate and greenhouse effect. Atmospheric transport and turbulence. Stratospheric ozone. Oxidizing power of atmosphere. Regional air pollution: aerosols, smog, mercury, and acid rain.
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
Requisites: Chemistry 14B or 20B, Mathematics 3A or 31A, Physics 1B or 6B.
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- · "PHYSICS 6B" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
A&O SCI 141
- CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- CHEM 20AHChemical Structure (Honors)
- MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
5 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 40 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.