Individual course details
Study programme			Meteorology
Chosen research area (module)
Nature and level of studies			basic academic studies
Name of the course			Cloud dynamics
Professor (lectures)			associated professor Dejan Janc
Professor/associate (examples/practical)
Professor/associate (additional)
ECTS		6	Status (required/elective)	required
Access requirements
Aims of the course	that students get acquainted with the basics of cloud dynamics
Learning outcomes	acquisition knowledge about the basic laws that apply to the air in which clouds are formed
Contents of the course
Lectures	Identification of basic cloud characteristics; Visual classification of clouds; Identification of cloud systems using satellites; Shallow clouds; Fog types and formation mechanisms; Stratus and stratocumulus; Altostratus and altocumulus; Cirrus clouds; Nimbostratus; Convection parameters; Unorganized convection; Organized convection; Clouds that accompany organized convection; Orographic clouds; Orographic precipitation; Cumulus clouds; Buoyancy in convective clouds; Entrainment; Single cell Cb clouds; Multicell Cb clouds; Supercell Clouds; Gust front; Microbursts; Tornado; Groups of Cb clouds; Numerical models of convective clouds; Principles of formulating the cloud models.
Examples/ practical classes	corresponding tasks will be solved after each of the units processed in the lectures.
Recommended books
1	Mlađen Čurić: Cloud dynamics Belgrade AGM 2017 (in Serbian)
2	Mlađen Ćurić and Dejan Janc: Cloud physics in tasks Faculty of Physics 2011 (in Serbian)
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Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures	Examples&practicals		Student project	Additional
3	3
Teaching and learning methods	Lectures: Theoretical processing of thematic units Practical classes: Practical examples - computational tasks
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework		mark	examination	mark
coursework			written examination	20
practicals		10	oral examination	50
papers		10
presentations		10