Course Description
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 2: Air Pollution, A&O SCI 2
Causes and effects of high concentrations of pollution in atmosphere. Topics include nature and sources of gaseous and particulate pollutants, their transport, dispersion, modification, and removal, with emphasis on atmospheric processes on scales ranging from individual sources to global effects; interaction with biosphere and oceans; stratospheric pollution. P/NP or letter grading.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Course Equivalence: UCD ATM 006
UC Irvine:
General Education: II - Science and Technology
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Physical Science
UC Merced:
Course Equivalence: A&O SCI 2&2L together = UCM ESS 040 or SSHA Natural Science GE without lab, if combined (see your Academic Advisor)
General Education: ** See Equivalency Notes **
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units (UCRVELEC)
UC San Diego:
General Education: Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/AS; Sixth - Analytic Methodologies; TMC 1 course toward Physics or 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; ERC - 1 Natural Science, Revelle - 1 course towards Natural Science, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Natural Sciences and Engineering; Muir: 1 course in a Natural Sciences theme in "Chemistry, Physics, and the Environment"
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: This course will apply to Area C and Quantitative Relationships automatically upon completion
UC Santa Cruz:
Course Equivalence: UCSC ENVS 23 when taken with A&O SCI 2L (Lab)
General Education: PE-E
Course Fees
None
More About The Course
This course offers an introduction to the causes, scientific principles, and political and societal consequences of some of today’s most pressing environmental problems. Air Pollution phenomena such as the ozone hole, urban smog, climate change, etc., have in common that natural atmospheric processes have been severely disturbed by human activities. The goal of this course is to introduce the scientific concepts needed to understand the behavior of the natural and disturbed atmosphere. Students will gain a thorough understanding of the physics, meteorology, and chemistry of the atmosphere, and in addition, the biological and societal processes impacting the atmosphere and the environmental and health consequences of air pollution will be introduced. Scientific concepts will be taught through short online lectures followed by interactive activities, such as video recordings of experiments, online simulations, simple calculations, and analysis of atmospheric observations, with an emphasis on the understanding of the science of air pollution.
Course Creators
J.P. Stutz
J.K. Lew
Q. Li
Professor Li earned his Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry from Harvard University.
Professor Li earned his Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry from Harvard University.