Weather and Climate

ATMOCN 100 covers the nature of weather phenomena, storm systems, and climate variability.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Daniel VimontJonathan ChambersMatt Oehler +2 more

Summary

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Historical reviews of Jonathan Martin: Jonathan Martin's sections are described as difficult, with tricky exams and a lack of provided study materials or feedback on assignments.

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Not open to students with credit forATM OCN 101

ATMOCN 100 used by

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Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.00 GPA, 45.0% A/AB (n=269 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.11 GPA, 50.5% A/AB (n=192 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.31 GPA, 66.9% A/AB (n=157 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Michael Notaro: Michael Notaro is described as a genuine, caring professor who offers easy quizzes and significant extra credit opportunities. Reviewers highlight his ability to make the content accessible to students with little prior meteorology knowledge and consider him a great professor.

DANIEL VIMONT is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JONATHAN MARTIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARK KULIE is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MICHAEL MORGAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MICHAEL NOTARO is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STEVEN ACKERMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ZOE BROOKE ZIBTON is recorded teaching in Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction151 / 1540
LEC 002Classroom Instruction167 / 2000

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews of Mark Kulie: Recent reviews for Mark Kulie highlight engaging lectures, helpful study guides, and a supportive approach tailored to students seeking physical science credits.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 2.52 GPA, 21.4% A/AB (n=126 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.35 GPA, 61.4% A/AB (n=308 letter grades); Spring 2026: 2.69 GPA, 24.3% A/AB (n=111 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Jonathan Martin: Jonathan Martin's sections are described as difficult, with tricky exams and a lack of provided study materials or feedback on assignments.

Historical reviews of Michael Notaro: Michael Notaro is praised for being genuine and caring, with easy quizzes and significant extra credit opportunities available to students.

Topics

  • Wind, temperature, clouds, and precipitation
  • Storm systems and prediction
  • Air composition and pollution
  • Global winds and climate change

Grades

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Fall 2026 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.14 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Fall 2026

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ATMOCN 100 · Fall 2026

Weather and Climate

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Model & dataset provenance
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  "output_id": "26f88e584872666c3f2adc5a6563f30dc74b427b41727fd1f0e2fcabd7663922",
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