GEOG 119Global Climatology and Climate Change
Geography · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Survey of the Earth's climate system and the factors that cause it to change. Study of the most important properties of climate and how they vary and connect geographically and over time. The physical laws governing climate variations and interconnections are explained to build a basic-level understanding of natural climate phenomena as well as the impacts of human industrial and agricultural activities. Examination of the source of the Earth's heat energy, the determinants of temperature near the surface and throughout the atmosphere, and how the observed seasonal and spatial variations are created. Introduction to the various motion systems in the atmosphere and ocean and their governing physical laws. Exploration of the nature and causes of past changes in global climate evident in paleo records. Survey of the current understanding of the ongoing human-caused climate change event and how climate models are used to develop projections of future climate change.
P/NP 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
Requisite: course 1.
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GEOG 119
- GEOG 1Earth's Physical Environment
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