NATS 1005 - Meteorology

1. Understand the basic physical properties and processes that affect the atmosphere, such as radiation, moisture, and motion.
2. Describe the physical processes that affect, create, enhance, and diminish weather phenomena, such as midlatitude cyclones, thunderstorms, and hurricanes.
3. Understand and interpret graphical information and maps, including those issued to alert people to weather-related threats.
4. Describe weather phenomena in terms of the meteorological processes and their impacts on society.
5. Obtain and analyze meteorological data, maps, and information.
6. Formulate and test hypotheses of weather phenomena by performing experiments and creating forecasts.
7. Communicate findings, analyses, and interpretations orally and in writing.
8. Evaluate societal issues from both an ethical and natural science perspective, ask questions about the evidence presented, and make informed judgments about meteorology-related topics and policies.
9. Work cooperatively and effectively in groups engaged in the processes of science.
10. Describe how meteorologists develop, collect, and analyze data, and how they arrive at scientific conclusions.

1. Temperature changes in the atmosphere
2. Water vapor and humidity
3. Clouds
4. Precipitation
5. Winds
6. Air masses and fronts
7. Midlatitude cyclones and anticyclones
8. Thunderstorms
9. Tornadoes
10. Hurricanes