546-0321/02 – Meteorology and Climatology (MAK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jitka Chromíková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jitka Chromíková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Monitoring meteorology parameters for evaluation of climatology process.Processing of currently measured meteorological quantities and statistical processing of long-term climatological series.
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Summary
The part of the subject called "Meteorology ..." explains the basic processes in
atmosphere, respectively. troposphere. It characterizes the conditions of individual monitoring meteorological elements such as temperature, relative humidity, cloudiness, precipitation, evaporation, wind.
It statistically evaluates data collection and performs daily and annual analyzes selected meteorological elements.
In the second part of the course "...... climatology" explains climate,geographical factors . It also explains the concepts of macro, mesoclimate and microclimate. Climate of the Czech Republic.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Understanding of basic meteorological variables and climatological processes.
E-learning
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Other requirements
Statistical processing of selected climatological data, in PC classroom.
Work on the CHMI portal - processing of historical series, selected climatological variables.
Work on the CHMI portal model Aladin, radar images, satellite images.
Measurement of climatological data in the field at selected sites and in cooperation with CHMI. And their evaluation.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Meteorology as a scientific discipline, climatology as a scientific discipline. Subjects and objects of study of these disciplines, differences.
2. Temperature as a meteorological and climatological element. Characteristics - quantities needed for practice. Daily and annual temperature in the Czech Republic, extreme values in the Czech Republic. Geographical factors of horizontal temperature changes. Spatial temperature distribution in the Czech Republic. Measurement - standard conditions, instrumentation, standard height, time. Thermal anomalies - problems of thermal islands in the Czech Republic.
3. Statistical methods of processing of measured values of temperature - arithmetic mean, weighted average, isotherm method.
4. Relative humidity as a meteorological and climatological element. Characteristics - quantities needed for practice. Geographical factors of horizontal changes in relative humidity. Spatial distribution of relative humidity in the Czech Republic. Daily and annual course of relative humidity in the Czech Republic, extreme values in the Czech Republic. Measurement - standard conditions, instrumentation, standard height, time and method of psychrometric tables.
5. Condensation products: cloud cover. Types of clouds - precipitation active, their genesis, morphology.
6. Vertical Precipitation - as a meteorological and climatological element. Classification of precipitation by precipitation state, by location, by genesis, precipitation intensity.
Characteristics - quantities needed for practice. Geographical factors of spatial distribution of precipitation. Spatial distribution of precipitation in the Czech Republic. Daily and annual precipitation in the Czech Republic, extreme values in the Czech Republic. Measurement - standard conditions, instrumentation, standard height, time.
7. Statistical methods of processing measured quantities of precipitation - arithmetic mean, weighted average, isohyet method. And other methods. Precipitation, intensity - data chmi.cz, model Aladin, radar images.
8. Solution of dependence of total precipitation on temperature, for convective precipitation.
9. Horizontal collisions - anomalous phenomena.
10. Evaporation - as a meteorological and climatological element. Characteristics - quantities needed for practice. Geographical factors of horizontal evaporation changes. Daily and annual evaporation in the Czech Republic, extreme values in the Czech Republic.
11. Problems of vapor measurement, current and potential vapor. Modeling of vapor quantity.
12. Wind as a meteorological and climatological element. Characteristics - quantities needed for practice. Geographical factors of spatial wind distribution in the Czech Republic. Long-term trends of wind speed and direction in the Czech Republic, extreme values. Statistical methods of wind speed and direction data processing - wind rose.
13. Classification of mesoclimate of the Czech Republic. Climate Atlas of the Czech Republic. Long-term time series of selected climatological variables.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
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