Course Details
Climatology
Academic Year 2024/25
BSB008 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 4th year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- Introduction to meteorology and climatology.
- Measurement in meteorology and climatology.
- Earth atmosphere – basic structure, composition of the atmosphere, stratification.
- Solar radiation.
- Air pressure and temperature mode of the atmosphere.
- Water in atmosphere – humidity and condensation.
- Lecture of expert, excursion.
- Introduction to climatology.
- Climate change – past, present, future.
- Climate change – basic definition, facts, problems, IPCC.
- Climate change – regional climate downscaling.
- Lecture of expert, excursion.
- Climate change – connection to hydrology, water management and climate change.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Water drop drops and presentation themes list.
- Calculation of relation between intensity of sun radiation and mean temperature.
- Statistical evaluation of air temperature in given month.
- Main windy direction evaluation in given month.
- Prediction of daily air temperature using Neural Network (data preparing and NN testing).
- Prediction of daily air temperature using Neural Network (verification and prediction).
- Relation between daily air temperatures and humidity.
- Calculation of average monthly water evaporation and potential monthly evapotranspiration.
- Comparison of water outflows, evaporation and air temperatures for selected river basins in climate change.
- Reservoir water management analysis with out any climate change considiration.
- Reservoir water management analysis due to climate change.
- Presantations.
- Control of elaborates, test.