A&O SCI 186Operational Meteorology
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to junior/senior Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Environmental Sciences majors. Daily contact with weather data and forecasting, satellite and radar data. Introduction to weather forecasting for aviation, air pollution, marine weather, fire weather, and public use. Includes daily weather map discussions and visits to observing, radiosonde, and radar installations.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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 186
- 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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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.