Prerequisites: graduate standing; or consent of instructor

Description: A quantitative overview of the atmospheric structure, composition, climate, evolution, and circulation of planets within and outside the solar system. Focus areas include hydrostatic equilibrium, convection and lapse rates, photochemistry, escape processes, radiative transfer and spectroscopy, atmospheric formation, and basic fluid mechanics applied to circulation.

Credit: Credit is awarded for one of the following GEO 284 or GEO 184.