Master of Science - Hydrometeorology

The Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona now offers the nation’s first graduate degree programs (MS, Ph.D.) with a Major in Hydrometeorology. Faculty members in a variety of focus areas advise students, provide research opportunities, and teach courses for these degree programs. 

The purpose of the UA Hydrometeorology Program is to become the first and premier Hydrometeorology program in the World. The mission is to Educate students by providing them with (1) a well-rounded background in the related fields of atmospheric, hydrologic, and systems sciences, (2) the tools and methods for numerical modeling, prediction, and data assimilation (surface hydrology, weather, and climate), and (3) the sensors, data sources and data manipulation tools, including remote-sensing and geographic information systems (GIS).

This program considers important to partner with various national and international weather and climate forecasting agencies to identify critical hydrometeorological knowledge gaps, to support, encourage, and facilitate research in multidisciplinary hydrometeorological science, and to work towards improved forecasts and forecast support (particularly over arid and semiarid regions, such as the Western US), and

Finally, this program has as one of its goals to serve the hydrometeorological science and operational communities by coordinating meetings and workshops seeking to build consensus related to hydrometeorological science and to assist in the transfer of advances in understanding into the decision-making arena.