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EVSC 4370

Climate Near the Ground

Course Description

Prerequisites

EVSC 3300 or instructor permission

Analyzes the principles governing atmospheric processes occurring at small temporal and spatial scales near the Earth's surface, including energy, mass, and momentum transfer. Includes features of the atmospheric environment affecting plants and feedback mechanisms between plants and their local microclimates, trace gas exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere, energy budgets, evapotranspiration, and motions near the surface.