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Meteorology and Climatology

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0321/02
Abbreviation MAK
Course title Meteorology and Climatology
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Jitka Chromíková, Ph.D.

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.

E-learning

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Literature

KALVOVÁ, Jaroslava. Scénáře změny klimatu na území České republiky a odhady dopadů klimatické změny na hydrologický režim, sektor zemědělství, sektor lesního hospodářství a na lidské zdraví v ČR. Praha: Český hydrometeorologický ústav. Národní klimatický program České republiky. 2002. ISBN 80-86690-01-6 .
BARRY, Roger G. a Richard J. CHORLEY. Atmosphere, weather, and climate. 7th ed. New York: Routledge. 1998. ISBN 0‐415‐16020‐0.

Advised literature

KALVOVÁ, Jaroslava. Scénáře změny klimatu na území České republiky a odhady dopadů klimatické změny na hydrologický režim, sektor zemědělství, sektor lesního hospodářství a na lidské zdraví v ČR. Praha: Český hydrometeorologický ústav. Národní klimatický program České republiky. 2002.ISBN 80-86690-01-6 .
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