A&O SCI 3Meteorology and Extreme Weather
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Nature and causes of weather phenomena, including atmospheric global circulation, clouds and storms, lightning and precipitation, fronts and cyclones, and tornadoes and hurricanes.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
A&O SCI 3
- A&O SCI 3LMeteorology and Extreme Weather Laboratory
- A&O SCI 121Climate Mitigation Solutions
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.