Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0

• 40. - Physical sciences
• 40.04 - Atmospheric sciences and meteorology

40.0403 - Atmospheric physics and dynamics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the processes governing the interactions, movement, and behavioural of atmospheric phenomena and related terrestrial and solar phenomena. These programs include courses in cloud and precipitation physics, solar radiation transfer, active and passive remote sensing, atmospheric electricity and acoustics, atmospheric wave phenomena, turbulence and boundary layers, solar wind, geomagnetic storms, coupling, natural plasma, and energization.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • aeronomy
  • atmospheric dynamics
  • atmospheric physics
  • atmospheric physics and dynamics
  • ionospheric environment
  • magnetospheric physics

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• Exclusion(s)

  • atmospheric sciences(40.0401)
  • climatology(30.3501)
  • Earth science(40.0601)
  • meteorological technician(41.0399)
  • meteorology(40.0404)
  • physics(40.0801)