A&O SCI 200AIntroduction to Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Thermodynamics of two component (moist/salty) fluids. Thermodynamic diagrams and stability. Saturation and moist processes. Hydrostatics. Equations of fluid motion in rotating coordinate systems. Scales of motion and dominant balances: geostrophic, gradient, and thermal wind. Circulation and vorticity. Boundary layers and turbulence. Elementary waves.
S/U 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
Recommended requisite: Physics 131.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
A&O SCI 200A
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
1 direct requisite. Showing 31 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 200A
- A&O SCI 201CAtmospheric and Oceanic Turbulence
- A&O SCI 212CNumerical Modeling of Atmosphere II
- A&O SCI 216ATropical Motions with Moist Processes
- A&O SCI 229Mesoscale Modeling
- A&O SCI 215Ocean Circulation
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.