| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Meteorology | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Bachelor with honors studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Weather Analysis | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Prof. Dr. Lazar Lazić | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Assistant Prof. Dr. Katarina Veljović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 8 | Status (required/elective) | Required | |||||||
| Access requirements | General Meteorology 1; General Meteorology 2 | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | Aims of the course are: 1) To understand phenomena and processes in the atmosphere using observations and physical lows. 2) To understand impact of phenomena and processes to the weather on the ground. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Finalizing this course student can understand how work atmosphere and weather. Also, student can understand the complex processes of the atmosphere and severe weather conditions. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Introduction. Scale of atmospheric processes. 2. Atmospheric fields and circulation systems. 3.Temperature and flow fields. 4. Air masses and discontinuity zones. 5. Circulation systems: cyclones. 6. Cyclogenesis caused by baroclinic instability. 7. Orographic and explosive cyclogenesis. 8. Anticyclones. 9. Jet streams. 10. Mesoscale analysis. Local winds caused by the orography. 11. Tropical cyclones. 12. Tornadoes and local vortex. 13. Weather caused by atmospheric fields and systems: clouds and precipitation. 14. Weather in air masses and in atmospheric fronts. 15. Weather in circulation systems. Weather in mesoscale systems. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Practical exercises follows lectures. Student analyses weather charts with observed data, analyses vertical cross section, emagram... | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Lazar Lazić, 2012: Weather Analysis. Hidrometeorological Service, Belgrade. 260 pp. (In Serbian) | |||||||||
| 2 | Dušan Djurić, 1994: Weather analysis. Prentice Hall, New Jerey 07632, 304 pp. | |||||||||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 3 | 5 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, practicals exercises, home works, tests, seminars. | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 5 | written examination | 20 | |||||||
| practicals | 15 | oral examination | 40 | |||||||
| papers | 10 | |||||||||
| presentations | 10 | |||||||||