A&O SCI 181Analysis and Prediction of Weather Systems
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for advanced undergraduates who are interested in developing forecasting and broadcasting skills. Understanding synoptic and mesoscale surface-atmospheric conditions are key for predicting and forecasting short, medium, and long-range weather at the local to regional scale. Through a series of theoretical formal lectures and applied laboratory and project-based learning sessions, students acquire the analytical skillsets required to produce public forecasts, and are prepared for a career in operational and broadcast meteorology for the National Weather Service and other weather agencies across North America.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
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: course C110.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
A&O SCI 181
- A&O SCI C110Advanced Dynamic and Synoptic Meteorology
- A&O SCI 101Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields3 more beneath
- PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics1 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.