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Meteorology - NMET007

Title:	Meteorologie
Guaranteed by:	Department of Atmospheric Physics (32-KFA)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2019
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	cancelled
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	doc. RNDr. Josef Brechler, CSc.
Classification:	Physics > Meteorology and Climatology

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Annotation -

Last update: T_KMOP (27.04.2001)

Introduction to the physics of atmosphere. Lectures are aimed to non-specialists.

Aim of the course -

Last update: BRECHLER/MFF.CUNI.CZ (25.04.2008)

Student gains the basic knowledge about atmospheric processes.

Course completion requirements - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. Josef Brechler, CSc. (11.10.2017)

Ústní zkouška.

Literature -

Last update: BRECHLER/MFF.CUNI.CZ (25.04.2008)

Battan, L.J.: Fundamentals of Meteorology. Prentice-Hall, Inc.,1984

Teaching methods -

Last update: BRECHLER/MFF.CUNI.CZ (25.04.2008)

Lectures

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: BRECHLER/MFF.CUNI.CZ (25.04.2008)

Excamination (see sylabus).

Syllabus -

Last update: T_KMOP (29.04.2004)

1. Composition and vertical structure of the atmosphere, dry and clean atmosphere, air-pollution, vertical profiles of temperature, pressure, density and moisture.

2. Basis of atmospheric energetics. Solar radiation, Earth's and atmosphere radiation, radiation and heat balance.

3. Vertical temperature stability of the atmosphere and vertical motions, buoyancy force and acceleration, atmospheric stability types, vertical temperature gradients, temperature inversion, turbulent diffusion.

4. Clouds, processes resulting in the clouds creation, cloud classification.

5. Precipitation, processes in creation of cloud droplets, type of precipitation, fog.

6. Air-flow, balance of forces in the atmosphere, geostophic and gradient winds, impact of the orography and surface on air-flow, local circulation systems.

7. Air masses, pressure lows and highs, atmospheric fronts, structure of the mentioned atmospheric phenomena.

8. Analysis and prognosis of the meteorological parameters, methods of analysis and prognosis.