Basic course in applied meteorology - NAFY043
Title: Základy aplikované meteorologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Condensed Matter Physics (32-KFKL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2010 to 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Tomáš Halenka, CSc.
doc. Mgr. Michal Žák, Ph.D.
RNDr. Aleš Raidl, Ph.D.
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Last update: T_KFES (29.04.2016)
Students will gain knowledge on basic principles of fluid dynamics, structure of the Earth’s atmosphere, thermodynamic processes in the atmosphere and motion of the atmosphere, about air masses and their properties, atmospheric fronts and pressure systems.
Syllabus -
Last update: T_KFES (29.04.2016)

Composition and structure of the Earth‘s atmosphere, daily and annual cycle of meteorological characteristics, stability criteria of air masses, application in thermodynamic diagrams. Air masses. Atmospheric fronts, pressure systems, their structure and development with respect to the diagnostic methods and weather forecasting. Basic principles of ideal and real fluids. Fundamentals of thermodynamics in meteorology, hydrostatic equilibrium and approximation of the Earth’s atmosphere, heat exchange in the system of the Earth - atmosphere, coordinate systems and motion of the atmosphere. Time tendencies in the atmosphere, atmospheric energetics.