METEOROLOGY

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
METEOROLOGIA
Course code
CT0507 (AF:397743 AR:213615)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
GEO/12
Period
1st Semester
Course year
3
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The lecture is aimed at introducing the most prominent observed atmospheric and climatic phenomena. A consideration of the interactions between ocean and atmosphere will enable the students to understand many phenomena related to the observed climate variability.
1. Knowledge and comprehension
Knowledge and comprehension concerning atmospheric phenomena and phenomena resulting from of the atmosphere-ocean interactions as well as their temporal and spatial evolution
2. Capability of applying knowledge and comprehension
Capability to recognize atmospheric phenomena from the analysis of observed data
3. Assessment capability
Capability of conjecturing possible evolutions of atmospheric and climatic phenomena
Basic mathematics and physics
Temperature and insolation
Atmospheric pressure and winds
Atmospheric moisture and precipitation
Air masses and fronts
Ocean atmosphere interactions
Climate classifications
Climate variability
Lecture notes and slides, C. Donald Ahrens: Meteorology Today, Brookks/Cole, 1999, 528 pages
Goal of the oral exam is to ascertain the comprehension of the different topic of the class, particularly as far as the elaboration of the acquired information is concerned.
Frontal Lectures, possibly talk and experimental activity, also in informatic lab and through visits to research institutions.
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The oral exam is aimed at a candidate's valuation in the whole discipline of the lecture. After a first invitation to discuss a topic chosen by the candidate -this serves to test the acquired knowledge on a particularly familiar topic- the exam continues focussing on several of the remaining topics
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 19/02/2024