A&O SCI 201CAtmospheric and Oceanic Turbulence
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Recommended: course 201A. Turbulent flows that occur on relatively small scales (<~10 km) in both atmosphere and ocean. Classical homogeneous, shear, convective, and boundary-layer turbulence and its geophysical modification due to stratification, Earth’s rotation, and water phase changes.
S/U or 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 200A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
A&O SCI 201C
- A&O SCI 200AIntroduction to Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity1 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 10 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 201C
- A&O SCI 212CNumerical Modeling of Atmosphere II
- A&O SCI 216ATropical Motions with Moist Processes
- A&O SCI 229Mesoscale Modeling
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.