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ATOC 512. Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Equations of motion used to study waves, turbulence, and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans. Standard approximations to these equations, including the Boussinesq, primitive, quasigeostrohic, and rotating shallow water equations. Emphasis is on effects for which rotation and/or buoyancy play
essential roles. Simple classes of flow, e.g., geostrophic, thermal wind, Ekman, and inertial oscillations.
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MATH 314, MATH 315, or permission of instructor
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ATOC 513. Waves and Stability.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Description of the principal wave types and instability mechanisms of geophysical fluid dynamics. Geostrophic adjustment, wave dispersion, the WKBJ approximation. Wave types considered include (internal) inertia-gravity waves, planetary Rossby waves, and the equatorial and coastal wave guides. Instabilities
considered include inertial, symmetric, barotropic, baroclinic, and Kelvin-Helmholtz
instability.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MATH 314, MATH 315, or permission of instructor
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ATOC 515. Turbulence in Atmosphere and Oceans.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Application of statistical and semi-empirical methods to the study of geophysical turbulence. Reynolds' equations, dimensional analysis, and similarity. The surface and planetary boundary layers. Oceanic mixed layer. Theories of isotropic two- and three- dimensional turbulence: energy and enstrophy inertial ranges. Beta turbulence.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MATH 314, MATH 315, a previous course in fluid dynamics (such as ATOC 512), or permission of instructor
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ATOC 519. Advances in Chemistry of Atmosphere.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of the field of atmospheric chemistry that is identified as the significant
driver of climate change and the cause of millions of premature death every year. Discussion of cutting-edge novel technologies for observing and quantifying
pollutants (from ground to satellite) using artificial intelligence, the fate of emerging
contaminants (e.g., nano/microplastics, trace metals, persistent organic), and modelling of atmospheric and interfacial processes. Examination of topics like
atmospheric gaseous and multiphase components like bioaerosols. Study of
photochemical, photophysical, and aerosol nucleation processes that affect air quality, climate change, and ecosystem health.
- Offered in odd years. Students should register in CHEM 519 in even years.
- Prerequisites: CHEM 213, CHEM 273, MATH 222, MATH 315 or equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 519.
- 3 hours lecture
- Cross linked course: CHEM 519
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ATOC 521. Cloud Physics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A detailed overview of the environmental factors and microphysical processes involved in the formation of clouds and precipitation. Topics typically include: cloud observations, atmospheric thermodynamics, environmental stability regimes, convection, the microphysics of the formation of cloud droplets and ice crystals, initiation of precipitation, aerosol鈥揷loud interactions.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 621.
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites (Undergraduates): ATOC 315, MATH 314, and MATH 315, or permission of instructor.
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ATOC 525. Atmospheric Radiation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Solar and terrestrial radiation. Interactions of molecules, aerosols, clouds, and precipitation with radiation of various wavelengths. Radiative transfer through the clear and cloudy atmosphere. Radiation budgets. Satellite and ground-based measurements. Climate implications.
- Prerequisites (Undergraduates): ATOC 315, MATH 314, and MATH 315, or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 620.
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ATOC 531. Dynamics of Current Climates.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A detailed overview of the climate and the global energy balance. Topics typically include: energy balance at top of the atmosphere and at the surface, poleward energy flux, the role of clouds, climate and atmospheric/oceanic general circulations, natural variability of the climate system, evolution of climate and climate change.
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MATH 315 or permission of instructor
- Corequisite (Undergraduate): ATOC 312 or ATOC 512 or permission of instructor
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ATOC 540. Synoptic Meteorology 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analysis of current meteorological data. Description of a geostrophic, hydrostatic atmosphere. Ageostrophic circulations and hydrostatic instabilities. Kinematic and thermodynamic methods of computing vertical motions. Tropical and extratropical condensation rates. Barotropic and equivalent barotropic atmospheres.
- Fall
- 2 hours lecture; 2 hours laboratory
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MATH 314, MATH 315, or permission of instructor
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ATOC 541. Synoptic Meteorology 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analysis of current meteorological data. Quasi-geostrophic theory, including the omega equation, as it relates to extratropical cyclone and anticyclone development. Frontogenesis and frontal circulations in the lower and upper troposphere. Cumulus convection and its relationship to tropical and extratropical circulations. Diagnostic case study work.
- Winter
- 2 hours lecture; 2 hours laboratory
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): ATOC 312 and ATOC 540 or permission of instructor.
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ATOC 548. Mesoscale Meteorology.
Credits: 0-3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Theory of meteorologically important mesoscale phenomena including mesoscale instabilities, cumulus convection and its organization (including thunderstorms, squall lines, and other forms of severe weather), internal gravity waves,
and topographically forced flows. Application of theory to the physical interpretation of observations and numerical simulations.
- Prerequisite(s): ATOC 512 or ATOC 312
- Not open to students who have taken ATOC 646.
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ATOC 551. Selected Topics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
- 1 hour lecture
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of instructor
- Restriction: Graduate students and final-year Honours Atmospheric Science students. Others by special permission.
- Restriction: Course restricted to students in U3 undergraduate or graduate programs in ATOC or in closely related disciplines, and permission of the instructor.
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ATOC 552. Selected Topics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
- Restrictions: Course restricted to students in U3 undergraduate or graduate programs in ATOC or in closely related disciplines, and permission of the instructor.
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ATOC 555. Field Course 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Observing weather, climate and environmental chemistry in tropical Barbados. Emphasis on experiential learning. Field observations typically cover measurements of sea surface temperature, meteorological variables, and environmental chemical characteristics.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor required.
- Restriction(s): Open only to students enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in Science or Engineering.
- This field course will be held at the Bellairs Institute in Barbados. Students pay for their own tuition and airfare. The course $2722.27 fee will cover 2 weeks of accommodation (double occupancy), food, transportation in Barbados, and lab supplies. The trip's duration is 15 days and 14 nights in May. For information about the course fee, students should contact the department administration (admin.aos [at] mcgill.ca).
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ATOC 556. Field Course 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Field studies in selected topics of the atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
- Restrictions: Course restricted to students in U2 undergraduate or graduate programs in ATOC or in closely related disciplines, and permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Course restricted to students in U3 undergraduate or graduate programs in ATOC or in closely related disciplines, and permission of the instructor.
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ATOC 557. Research Methods: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The analysis of observational and modeling data, and the advantages and limitations of different data. Different analysis methods including regression, linear stochastic processes autocovariance and spectral analysis, principle component analysis, inverse problems and data assimilation, commonly used in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
- Prerequisite(s): COMP 208, MATH 315, MATH 323, and MATH 324 or equivalents.
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ATOC 558. Numerical Methods and Laboratory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Numerical simulation of atmospheric and oceanic processes. Finite difference, finite element, and spectral modelling techniques. Term project including computer modelling of convection or large-scale flows in the atmosphere or ocean.
- Winter
- 1 hour lecture; 4 hours laboratory
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): ATOC 312 or ATOC 512, or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Graduate students and final-year Honours Atmospheric Science students. Others by special permission.
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ATOC 568. Ocean Physics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Major topics in physics and dynamics of the ocean including seawater properties, density and equation of state, sea ice, air-sea-ice exchanges, mixing and stability in the ocean, wind-driven and thermohaline circulations. Observational techniques and numerical models of the ocean, which include some data analysis and literature
review.
- Restriction: Graduate students and final-year Honours Atmospheric Science students. Others by special permission.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): ATOC 512 or permission of instructor
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ATOC 616. Topics - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced topics in the dynamics of oceanic and atmospheric flows.
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ATOC 626. Atmospheric/Oceanic Remote Sensing.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Principles of radiative transfer applied to observing the atmosphere and oceans by satellite, radar, and other methods of remote sensing. Applications to cloud physics and climate research.
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ATOC 666. Topics In Ocean Circulation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Recent observations of mesoscale and large-scale ocean circulation. Inverse methods and their application to tracer distributions and deep ocean circulation. Review of modern theoretical developments such as geostrophic turbulence, homogenization of potential vorticity, ventilated thermoclines, wind and buoyancy driven ocean circulation models, and coupled ice-ocean circulation models.
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ATOC 670. Reading Course: Meteorology 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Assigned reading of a specialized topic in meteorology with formal evaluation.
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ATOC 671. Reading Course: Meteorology 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Assigned reading of a specialized topic in meteorology with formal evaluation.
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ATOC 672. Reading Course: Oceanography 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Assigned reading of a specialized topic in oceanography with formal evaluation.
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ATOC 691. Master's Thesis Literature Review.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Review of relevant literature in preparation for the M.Sc. research.
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ATOC 692. Master's Thesis Research 1.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Independent research under the supervision of the student's M.Sc. supervisor.
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ATOC 693. Master's Thesis Research 2.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Independent research under the supervision of the student's M.Sc. supervisor.
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ATOC 694. Master's Thesis Progress Report and Seminar.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Written report on the M.Sc. research progress and oral presentation of the report in seminar form to staff and students.
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ATOC 695. Master's Thesis Research 3.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Independent research under the supervision of the student's M.Sc. supervisor.
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ATOC 699. Master's Thesis.
Credits: 12
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Independent research under the supervision of the student's M.Sc. supervisor leading to the M.Sc. thesis.
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ATOC 700. Ph.D. Proposal Seminar.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Seminar where students present their research and a comprehensive framework for the thesis.
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ATOC 701. Ph.D. Comprehensive (General).
Credits: 0
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
An examination that must be passed by all doctoral candidates in order to continue in the doctoral program.
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ATOC 751. Seminar: Atmosphere and Ocean
Credits: 1
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Presentation of research to departmental staff and students. General presentations on library services, scientific communication, tips for scholarship applications, mental health issues.
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