Course Details

Meteorology and Climatology

Academic Year 2024/25

DSB024 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to meteorology, nomenclature, literature and other sources of information.
  2. Summary of basic knowledge of meteorology.
  3. Summary of basic knowledge of meteorology.
  4. Meteorological instruments, measurement of selected meteorological variables and their processing.
  5. Meteorological instruments, measurement of selected meteorological variables and their processing.
  6. New information on meteorology.
  7. Climatology – terminology, sources of information. Climate classification.
  8. Climate of EU and Czech Republic – thorough characterization.
  9. Climate change, scenarios, impacts.
  10. Atmospheric pollution, pollutants and their minitoring.
  11. Dynamic and statistic downscaling techniques, softwares and datasets (climate databases).
  12. Dynamic and statistic downscaling techniques, softwares and datasets (climate databases).
  13. Applications of climate change into water management problems.