| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Meteorology | |||||||||
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| Nature and level of studies | basic academic studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | General meteorology 2 | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | associated professor Dejan Janc | |||||||||
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| ECTS | 6 | Status (required/elective) | required | |||||||
| Access requirements | General meteorology 1 | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | that students get acquainted with the laws of radiation and optics in the atmosphere, the formation and development of various types of clouds, precipitation, atmospheric pollution, meteorological extreme phenomena, the basics of general atmospheric circulation, climate and climate change and the basis of weather forecasting | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Getting know the characteristics of short-wave solar radiation, long-range radiation of the Earth and the atmosphere, atmospheric heat balance, atmospheric optics, air pollution, extreme meteorological phenomena, clouds and precipitation, general atmospheric circulation, climate and climate change and the basis of weather forecasting. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Energy and radiation, absorption and emission by atoms and gas molecules, radiation of a black body, radiation of the Sun; 2. Application of the radiation law to the Sun-Earth system; 3. Absorption and trasmittance of solar radiation in the atmosphere, absorption and reflection of solar radiation on the surface of the Earth, distribution of solar radiation in the Earth-atmosphere system; 4. Radiation of the Earth and the atmosphere; 5. UV radiation and ozone layer, dissipation of solar radiation; 6. Energy balance of Earth-atmosphere system; 7. Heating and cooling of land, sea and air; 8. Lights in the atmosphere; 9. Clouds: formation and classification, fog; 9. Mechanisms of formation of cloud drops, growth of droplets in warm clouds, mechanisms of formation of ice crystals, growth of crystals in cold clouds and formation of precipitation; 10. Precipitation from the cloud, precipitation in the soil; 11. The formation of charge, lightning and thunder, storm clouds; 11. Air pollution, atmospheric aerosols, meteorological extreme events; 12. General circulation of the atmosphere, hydrological cycle, currents in the oceans, interaction of the atmosphere-ocean; 13. Climate, climate system; 14. Climate modelling, climate in the 21st century; 15. Weather forecast. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Computational tasks: Applying radiation laws to the Sun-Earth system. Heat balance of the atmosphere. Optics of the atmosphere. Aerosols in the atmosphere. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Mlađen Čurić and Dejan Janc: Meteorology Belgrade AGM 2016 (in Serbian) | |||||||||
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| 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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