Description: This course will give students a primer on boundary layer meteorology, and cycles of energy, water, and carbon between the land surface and the atmosphere. We will discuss how processes on timescales ranging from a few hours; like the diurnal cycle of surface heating, to decades; like the possibilities of multiple equilibrium states of a land surface influenced by precipitation recycling, influence land surface climate variability. Applications to agriculture, human health, and ecosystems will also be discussed. Students will lead class presentations on a few classic papers in the field and develop a term project that will either be a literature review or a presentation of new research. show less