| Individual
course details |
| Study
programme |
Meteorology |
| Chosen research
area (module) |
|
| Nature and level of studies |
Undergraduate studies |
| Name of the course |
Modeling of the atmosphere
2 |
| Professor
(lectures) |
Associate professor
Vladimir Djurdjevic |
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) |
Sonja Rendulic |
| Professor/associate (additional) |
|
| ECTS |
6 |
Status
(required/elective) |
elective |
| Access requirements |
Mathematics 1B; Mathematics 2B;
Thermodynamics; Mechanics; Dynamical meteorology 1 |
| Aims of the course |
To understand numerical modeling of soil
processes, planetary boundary layer and wet processes. |
| Learning outcomes |
Understanding different parametrization of
physical processes in numerical weather prediction models. |
| Contents of the course |
| Lectures |
1.Principles of the parameterization of
physical processes in numerical models of the atmosphere. 2. Single point
forcing, an example of a source-sink experiment. 3. Processes in the soil. 4.
Equation of the energy balance of the soil surface layer. 5. Numerical
approximations for individual members of the energy balance equation. 6.
Processes in the soil related to the water transport. 7. Parameterization of
the soil covered with snow or ice. 8. Water balance of the soil surface. 9.
Numerical solving of the Mellor-Yamada equation level 2.5. 10. Introductory
remarks and some empirical results of convective processes. 11. Numerical
approximation for the convective cloud processes. 12.
Betts-Miller-Janjić scheme for convection. 13. Deep convection case. 14.
Shallow convection case.15. Large scale precipitation. |
| Examples/ practical classes |
Practical programming of the simple one layer
soil model. |
| Recommended books |
| 1 |
Parametrization
of the physical processes in the atmosphere, Z. Janjic; Institute of
meteorology, Faculty of Physics |
| 2 |
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| 3 |
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| 4 |
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| 5 |
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| Number of classes
(weekly) |
| Lectures |
Examples&practicals |
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Student
project |
Additional |
| 3 |
3 |
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| Teaching and learning methods |
Lectures, programing, preparation of the sudent
paper and presentation. |
| Assessment (maximal
100) |
| Assesed coursework |
mark |
examination |
mark |
| coursework |
5 |
written examination |
|
| practicals |
5 |
oral examination |
30å |
| papers |
20 |
|
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| presentations |
40 |
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