Selected Topics in Atmospheric Sciences

Enrollment into the program.

What makes it going? Distribution of radiation and atmospheric energy budget.
Conservation of the global momentum. Average meridional circulation.
Role of moisture in global atmospheric dynamics. Radiation-convection coupling.
Large-scale dynamics and low-frequency variability.
Interactions between the components of the climate system. Atmosphere-Ocean. Atmosphere-Land. Troposphere-Stratosphere.
Selected topics from climate modelling. Modern methods of numerical discretization of primitive equations. Coupling between the dynamics, physics and parametrizations and numeric.
Selected topics in tropical dynamics

D. Randal: An introduction to the general circulation of the atmosphere. Available online on http://kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu/group/dave/at605.html
D. Randal: General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present, and Future. International Geophysics Series, Vol. 70, 2000.
J.P. Peixoto and A.H. Oort: Physics of Climate. Springer-Verlag 1992 Weinheim, Wiley-VCH, 2006, ISBN 3-527-40503-8.
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Getting the picture of general circulation and the relative importance of various factors for atmospheric variability. Understanding challenges associated with the global atmospheric modeling. Getting familiar with recent progress in selected research topics in atmospheric sciences.

Knowledge and understanding:
Student develops ability to understand challenges associated with addressing open scientific questions in various fields of atmospheric sciences and theoretical and experimental methods applied to solve them.

Application:
Obtained knowledge can be applied in doctoral thesis scientific research.

Reflection:
Usage of acquired knowledge to interconnection of related problems and scientific methods not directly involved in the field of doctoral thesis.

Transferable skills:
Deepened knowledge of contemporary scientific state-of-the-art in various fields enables interconnection of theoretical and experimental methods.

Lectures, consultations.

Active attendance at lectures and in discussions
Discussion
passed / not passed (according to the Statute of UL)