Individual course details
Study programme Meteorology
Chosen research area (module) Undergraduate studies
Nature and level of studies  
Name of the course Solar activity-weather and climate on the Earth
Professor (lectures) Dragana Vujović
Professor/associate (examples/practical)  
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 6 Status (required/elective)  
Access requirements Dynamic meteorology, Weather analysis
Aims of the course Understand the variability of the Sun's activity and its interaction with the atmosphere, which will help to differentiate the natural and anthropogenic impacts on the climate.
Learning outcomes Adopt new knowledge about the impact of Sun's activity on the weather and the climate on Earth.
Contents of the course
Lectures 1. Measuring and modeling of the total and spectral solar irradiance. 2. Physical causes of variability of irradiance. 3. Proxy data. 4. Number of sunspot and their variation on long time scales. 5. Maunder minimum. 6. How much Sun changed from Maunder minimum until now? 7. Irradiance variability during the Holocene. 8. Milankovic's cycles. 9. Clouds and solar activity. 10. Impact of solar variability on the climate. 11. Dynamical effects in the stratosphere. 12. Solar activity and regional climate variations. 13. Solar magnetism. 14. Review of recent research.
Examples/ practical classes Lectures were followed by practical exercises of students with an assistant. Exercises include: working with data obtained from meteorological observations and from observation of solar activity, analysis of these data, their comparison and search for correlations.
Recommended books
1 Benestad R. E., 2006: Solar activity and Earth's climate, Springer, pp. 316
2 JD Haigh, M Lockwood, MS Giampapa, 2004: The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate, Springer, 425.
3 Vardavis I. M., Taylor F. W., 2007: Radiation and Climate, Oxford University Press, pp. 492
4 S. Solanki, N. Krivova, J. Haigh, 2013: Solar Irradiance Variability and Climate. Прегледни рад. Solar Activity and Climate, 85 стр.
5  
Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
3 3      
Teaching and learning methods Lectures, consultations, computational exercises, seminars, oral exam.
Assessment (maximal 100)
assessed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 5 written examination 0
practicals 5 oral examination 70
papers      
presentations 20