ATMS 424

fall 2025

All Classes

Atmospheric Convection

Credit: 4 hours.

Qualitative and quantitative examination of atmospheric convection on a variety of scales. Topics covered include buoyancy, dry convection, boundary layer convection, cumulus clouds and entrainment, and different morphologies of thunderstorms, including tropical convection, single-cell convection, multicellular convection, mesoscale convective systems, supercellular convection, and tornadoes.

4 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: ATMS 301 and ATMS 302, or Graduate Standing.

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