Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

7 - Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Sciences

71 - Physics, Chemistry, Geology and Related Sciences

40. - Physical Sciences

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on the scientific study of inanimate objects, processes of matter and energy, and associated phenomena.

40.04 - Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

This subseries comprises instructional program classes 40.0401 to 40.0499.

40.0401 - Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, General

This instructional program class comprises any general program that focuses on the scientific study of the composition and behaviour of the atmospheric envelopes surrounding the earth, the effect of earth's atmosphere on terrestrial weather, and related problems of environment and climate. These programs include courses in atmospheric chemistry and physics, atmospheric dynamics, climatology and climate change, weather simulation, weather forecasting, climate modelling and mathematical theory; and studies of specific phenomena such as clouds, weather systems, storms, and precipitation patterns.

• Example Program Names:

  • Atmospheric sciences

• Exclusion

  • Climatology(40.0402)
  • Atmospheric physics(40.0403)
  • Meteorology(40.0404)
  • Meteorological technician(40.0499)

40.0402 - Atmospheric Chemistry and Climatology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of atmospheric constituents, reactions, measurement techniques, and processes in predictive, current, and historical contexts. These programs include courses in climate modelling, gases and aerosols, trace gases, aqueous phase chemistry, sinks, transport mechanisms, computer measurement, climate variability, paleoclimatology, climate diagnosis, numerical modelling and data analysis, ionization, recombination, photoemission, and plasma chemistry.

• Example Program Names:

  • Climatology

• Exclusion

  • Atmospheric sciences(40.0401)
  • Atmospheric physics(40.0403)
  • Meteorology(40.0404)
  • Meteorological technician(40.0499)
  • Chemistry(40.0501)
  • Earth sciences(40.0601)

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.

• Example Program Names:

  • Atmospheric physics

• Exclusion

  • Atmospheric sciences(40.0401)
  • Climatology(40.0402)
  • Meteorology(40.0404)
  • Meteorological technician(40.0499)
  • Earth sciences(40.0601)
  • Physics(40.0801)

40.0404 - Meteorology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the prediction of atmospheric motion and climate change. These programs include courses in general circulation patterns, weather phenomena, atmospheric predictability, parameterization, numerical and statistical analysis, large-scale and meso-scale phenomena, kinematic structures, precipitation processes, and forecasting techniques.

• Example Program Names:

  • Meteorologist
  • Meteorology

• Exclusion

  • Atmospheric sciences(40.0401)
  • Climatology(40.0402)
  • Atmospheric physics(40.0403)

40.0499 - Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Other

This instructional program class comprises any program not listed above that relates to Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology.

• Example Program Names:

  • Meteorological technician
  • Weather
  • Weather observation
  • Weather observer

• Exclusion

  • Atmospheric sciences(40.0401)
  • Climatology(40.0402)
  • Atmospheric physics(40.0403)
  • Meteorology(40.0404)