About This Major
A program that focuses on the scientific study of the processes governing the interactions, movement, and behavior of atmospheric phenomena and related terrestrial and solar phenomena. Includes instruction in cloud and precipitation physics, solar radiation transfer, active and passive remote sensing, atmospheric electricity and acoustics, atmospheric wave phenomena, turbulence and boundary layers, solar wind, geomagnetic storms, coupling, natural plasma, and energization.
Program Examples
- Magnetospheric Physics
- Aeronomy
- Ionospheric Environment
At a Glance
- CIP Code
- 40.0403
- CIP Family
- 40
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