GEO 123:
WEATHER AND CLIMATE
COURSE OBJECTIVES
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This course has natural and laboratory science designation. There are no
prerequisites needed to take this course. The overall objectives are to
understand basic atmospheric processes and how these generate the climate
regions of Earth and the daily weather events of mid-latitudes. The nature
and causes of climate change will also be studied, as will the biomes associated
with each of the great climate regions of the world.
At the end of the course you should be able to:
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describe and explain the major climate regions of the world
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discuss the origins of the "greenhouse effect" and its recent enhancement
("global warming")
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discuss ozone loss in the Stratosphere
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outline and explain the evidence for climate change over the past 2 million
years ("the Ice Age")
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explain atmospheric temperatures and winds
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explain cloud and precipitation forms
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understand the concepts of stability and pressure
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understand the weather systems that we experience in Wausau
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use INTERNET to access weather and climate information
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