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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Basics of Environmental meteorology and Climatology

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 616-2028/01
Abbreviation ZEMaK
Course title Basics of Environmental meteorology and Climatology
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Protection in Industry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Jančík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Earth's atmosphere, composition and vertical structure of the atmosphere.
2. Temperature mode and the second heat exchange in the atmosphere.
3. Air moisture, phase transitions of water in the atmosphere. Precipitation.
4. Pressure, the pressure change with height, the horizontal pressure change causes measurement.
5. Wind, definition, measurement, causes the wind, the wind change with height, the general circulation of the atmosphere, local circulation systems.
6. Queues, air mass. The sounding output and its evaluation, the stability of the atmosphere.
7. Dispersion conditions depending on meteorological elements.
8. Fundamentals climatology Earth. Typical weather situations in mid-latitudes.
9. Weather observations, sources of meteorological information. Weather patterns and dispersion of pollutants in the air. Weather forecast with regard to dispersion conditions.
10. Pollution and air pollution. Protection of the atmosphere. Basic concepts and characteristics.
11. air pollutants. The breakdown of pollutants. Classification of sources. Air pollution of natural and anthropogenic origin.
12. Possibilities of emission reduction. Technical measures at the sources. Equipment to capture emissions.
13. Air protection legislation. Clean Air Act.

Literature

AHRENS, Donald C. Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment. Published by Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2008, 624 p., ISBN: 0534397719 

Advised literature

SEINFELD, John H. a Spyros N. PANDIS. Atmospheric chemistry and physics: from air pollution to climate change. 2nd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, c2006. ISBN 0-471-72018-6.