Weather and Climate Laboratory
12.307 · Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences · Undergraduate · Spring 2025
Prof. Talia Tamarin-Brodsky, Prof. John Marshall
This course engages students in projects involving rotating tank laboratory experiments, analysis of data on the sphere, and report writing and presentation. Project themes explore fundamentals of climate science and make contact points with major contemporary environmental challenges facing mankind. Topics include heat and moisture transport in the atmosphere; weather and weather extremes; aerosols, dust, and atmospheric pollution; and ocean circulation and transport and plastics in the ocean.…
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