PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Meteorology Florida State University

Graduate students normally specialize in dynamic, physical, or synoptic meteorology, or climatology. Faculty members and graduate students in the department are conducting research in many areas, including air/sea interaction, boundary layer meteorology, coastal meteorology, climate prediction, climate changes and global warming, data assimilation, design of meteorological networks, large-scale flow, meso-meteorology, numerical weather prediction, ocean upwelling, physical climatology, radar meteorology, radiation physics, remote sensing, satellite meteorology, statistical prediction, tropical circulation, turbulence, and vortex dynamics.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degree Program

Candidates may specialize in many areas including dynamical, physical, synoptic meteorology, or climatology.

All doctoral candidates in meteorology must satisfy the following requirements: 1) the doctoral preliminary examinations, which may be combined with the master’s comprehensive examination; 2) one hour of MET 6930 for oral presentation of prospectus and one hour of 6930 for oral presentation of dissertation; and 3) an acceptable doctoral dissertation. There is no foreign language requirement.