A&O SCI 212ANumerical Methods in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Basic numerical methods for initial-boundary value problems in fluid dynamics, with emphasis on applications to atmospheric and oceanographic problems. Finite-difference methods and truncation error. Linear and nonlinear computational instability. Computational modes and computational boundary conditions. Nonlinear shallow-water equation model. Spectral methods.
S/U (for majors with consent of instructor after successful completion of written and oral comprehensive examination and for nonmajors at discretion of major department) or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 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 or corequisite: course 201A.
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 212A
- A&O SCI 201AGeophysical Fluid Dynamics I
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. 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.
A&O SCI 212A
- A&O SCI 212BNumerical Modeling of Atmosphere I
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.