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Han, Weiqing

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  • My research directs toward ocean circulation, dynamics, air-sea interaction, and climate variability and change. My main research themes are tropical-ocean variability from intraseasonal to decadal time scales, regional sea level change, extreme events, and the role of oceans in affecting regional and global climate variability. My research projects also involve the impacts of climate variability and change on the U.S. East Coast sea level & inundation.

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  • ocean circulation and dynamics, air-sea interaction, sea level, climate variability and change

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  • ATOC 1060 - Our Changing Environment: El Nino, Ozone, and Climate
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
    Discusses the Earth's climate for nonscience majors, focusing on the role of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere and land surface. Describes the water cycle, atmospheric circulations and ocean currents, and how they influence global climate, El Nino and the ozone hole. Discusses human impacts from climate change. Recommended prerequisite: ATOC 1050.
  • ATOC 3600 - Principles of Climate
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2022
    Describes the basic components of the climate system: the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and lithosphere. Investigates the basic physical processes that determine climate and link the components of the climate system. Covers the hydrological cycle and its role in climate, climate stability and global change. Recommended prerequisites: one semester of calculus and ATOC 1060 or ATOC 3300 or GEOG 3301 or GEOG 1001 or ATOC major. Same as GEOG 3601 and ENVS 3600.
  • ATOC 4730 - Physical Oceanography and Climate
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Introduces the field of physical oceanography, with emphasis on the ocean's interaction with the global atmosphere. Analysis of the ocean's heat, salt, and momentum budgets, wind-driven and thermohaline circulations, climate cycles including El Nino, and the ocean's role in climate change. Theory complemented by state-of-the-art observations and models. Department recommended prerequisites: ATOC 1060 or ATOC 3070 or ATOC 3600 and one semester of calculus. Same as ATOC 5730.
  • ATOC 4800 - Policy Implications of Climate Controversies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
    Examines controversial issues related to the environment, including climate change. Covers scientific theories and the intersection between science and governmental policy. Includes discussion, debate and critical reading of textual materials. Department enforced prerequisite: ATOC 1060 or ATOC 3600. Same as ATOC 5000 and ENVS 5830.
  • ATOC 5000 - Critical Issues in Climate and the Environment
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
    Discusses current issues such as ozone depletion, global warming and air quality for graduate students in nonscientific fields. Provides the scientific background necessary to understand, follow scientific developments and critically evaluate these issues. Same as ATOC 4800 and ENVS 5830.
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