| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Meteorology | |||||||||
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| Nature and level of studies | basic academic studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | General meteorology 1 | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | associated professor Dejan Janc | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | ||||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 6 | Status (required/elective) | required | |||||||
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| Aims of the course | that students get acquainted with the basic processes which are of significance for weather and with application of the basic laws of dynamics and thermodynamics to the atmosphere | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Getting know the basic processes and phenomena in the atmosphere, as well as the parameters that characterize the atmosphere. Application of the laws of hermodynamics to the atmosphere. Application of the laws of dynamics to the atmosphere. Getting know the forces that are important for atmospheric motions. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Meteorology as a science, classification of meteorology, history of meteorology; 2. The origin and composition of the atmosphere, the structure of the atmosphere; 3. Earth's magnetic field, electrical phenomena in the atmosphere, atmospheric acoustics; 4. Atmospheric pressure, static equation; 5. The equation of states, the first principle of thermodynamics, the second principle of thermodynamics; 6. Humidity in the atmosphere, parameters of humidity in the atmosphere, adiabatic processes in the atmosphere; 7. Rising and stability of air; 8. Air temperature; 9. Real forces in the atmosphere; 10. Coriolis force, centrifugal force; 11. Equations of motion, geostrophic wind, thermal wind, gradient wind, cyclostrophic wind; 12. Flow fields in the atmosphere and the wind; 13. Air masses and fronts; 14. Cyclones and anti-cyclones; 15. Tropical cyclones. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Application of the Internet in meteorology. Computational tasks: pressure and pressure changes with height, the first principle of thermodynamics (adiabatic processes in the atmosphere), forces in the atmosphere, geostrophic and gradient wind. Creation of emagrams. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Mlađen Čurić and Dejan Janc: Meteorology Belgrade AGM 2016 (in Serbian) | |||||||||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, colloquiums, consultations, tasks, internet | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | 20 | |||||||
| practicals | 20 | oral examination | 30 | |||||||
| papers | 20 | |||||||||
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