| Individual
course details |
| Study
programme |
Meteorology |
| Chosen research
area (module) |
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| Nature and level of studies |
Undergraduate studies |
| Name of the course |
Wave movement in the
atmosphere |
| Professor
(lectures) |
Associate professor
Vladimir Djurdjevic |
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) |
Sonja Rendulic |
| Professor/associate (additional) |
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| ECTS |
6 |
Status
(required/elective) |
elective |
| Access requirements |
Mathematics 1B; Mathematics 2B;
General meteorology 1; Thermodynamics; Mechanics |
| Aims of the course |
To understand rotating and stratified fluid
flow and application for synoptic and hemispheric scales in the atmopsphere. |
| Learning outcomes |
Equations of fluid motion and approximations
related to the Earth's atmosphere. Shallow water equations. Modified
equations. Instability theory. |
| Contents of the course |
| Lectures |
1. Equations of fluid motion and the
approximations when equations are applied to the Earth's atmosphere. 2.
Shallow water equations. 3. EquationslLinearization 3. Solving the equations
of motion using the Fourier method. 4. Gravitational and gravitational-inertial
waves. 5. Rossby waves. 6. Modified equations, analysis and solving. 7.
Geostrophic adjusment. 8. Energy transformations in the shallow water
equations. 9. Equations for a stratified fluid. 10. The usual approximations
for the stratified fluid. 11.Instability theory. 12. Barotropic and
baroclinic instability. 13. Eady model. 13. Advective model. 15. A general
case of baroclinic instability. |
| Examples/ practical classes |
Solving of different theoretical problems and
examples in the area of dynamical meteorology. |
| Recommended books |
| 1 |
Dynamical
meteorology, F. Mesinger; Institute of meteorology, Faculty of Physics |
| 2 |
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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 and homeworks. |
| Assessment (maximal
100) |
| Assesed coursework |
mark |
examination |
mark |
| coursework |
5 |
written examination |
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| practicals |
5 |
oral examination |
50 |
| papers |
40 |
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| presentations |
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