| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Meteorology | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate Study | |||||||||
| Name of the course | General Circulation of the Atmosphere | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Katarina Veljović, assistant professor | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Katarina Veljović, assistant professor | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | Status (required/elective) | Optional | ||||||||
| Access requirements | Dynamical Meteorology 1; Weather Analysis | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | The course examines diagnostic studies of the Earth's atmosphere and discusses their implications for the theory of the structure and general circulation of the Earth's atmosphere. It includes some discussion of the use of global models in simulation of the general circulation of the atmosphere. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | By taking this course, a student learns the mechanisms that are responsible for the global circulation of the atmosphere. The outcome of this course is mastering new and complex techniques of modeling the general circulation of the atmosphere, as well as the introduction in the researching. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. An introduction to the general Circulation of the Atmosphere. 2. Dynamic equations. 3. The observed circulation: mean circulation, the average structure of the atmosphere and the maintenance of the circulation. 4.Momentum conservation. 5. The processes which maintain the circulation: the balance requirements for moisture, momentum and energy. 6. Types of general circulation of the atmosphere: symmetric and wave circulation. 7.The role of cyclonic vortex in the general circulation of the atmosphere. 8.The energy cycle. 9. Laboratory models of the atmosphere. 10.Numerical modeling. 11. Data assimilation. 12. ECMWF model. 13. ECHAM model. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Exercises on the computer follow the contents of the lecture completely. Students are able to run numerical weather prediction models with a selected situations and analyze the results. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Lazar Lazić, 2013: General circulation of the atmosphere. Institute for Meteorology, Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade. 148 стр. | |||||||||
| 2 | Lorenz N. Edward, 1967: The nature and theory of the general circulation of the atmosphere. WMO, 162 pp. | |||||||||
| 3 | Randal A. David, 2000: General circulation model development – Past, present and future. International Geophysics Series, Vol. 70. Academic Press, 808 pp. | |||||||||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, exercises, seminars. | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 5 | written examination | 20 | |||||||
| practicals | 15 | oral examination | 40 | |||||||
| papers | 10 | |||||||||
| presentations | 10 | |||||||||