Modeling as a predictive tool for environmental decision-making. This course will covers spatial types and quality, data input operations, database management, data analysis, and software design concerns. An introduction to the techniques of digital image acquisition and processing. An introduction to the study of the Earth's atmosphere. Topics covered include composition and distribution of the components of the atmosphere, atmospheric thermodynamics, synoptic meteorology, atmospheric aerosol, nucleation processes, microphysics of warm and cold clouds, cloud morphology, violent storms, and artificial modification of clouds and precipitation.
Satellite meteorology is the measurement of weather by sensors aboard Earth-orbiting satellites.
An introduction to the study of the physics of the Earth's climate. An introduction to nuclear and radiochemistry stressing the fundamentals of nuclear structure, systematics of nuclear decay, the detection and measurement of radiation, radiation protection, and the role of nuclear chemistry in medical, environmental, and scientific applications. The nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear waste problems will be discussed.