Meteorology   (052S2)

Academic year:

2024/2025.

Attendance requirements:

001A2 / 011A2

ECTS:

2

Study level:

Study program:

Teacher:

Ivana A. Tošić, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Physics, Studentski trg 12, Beograd

Assistants:

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Hours of instruction:

Weekly: two hours of lectures (2+0+0)

Goals:

The goal of this course is to introduce students to the laws of the atmosphere and how the phenomena and changes in the atmosphere occur according to these laws.

Outcome:

Upon successfully completing this course, students have acquired knowledge of the selected parts of meteorology and they are able to apply the knowledge in environmental chemistry.

Teaching methods:

Lectures and term papers.

Extracurricular activities:

Students do homework assignments, go over their notes, study and find relevant information relevant to their term papers and the course material (books, the Internet, etc.).

Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

• Mirjana Ruml: Meteorologija, Poljoprivredni fakultet, Beograd, 2005.

Supplementary coursebooks:

• Mlađen Ćurić: Dinamička meteorologija, Hidrometeorološki zavod Srbije, Beograd 2002.
• Lazar Lazić: Analiza vremena, Hidrometeorološki zavod Srbije, Beograd 2012.
• Lazar Lazić: Prognoza vremena, Hidrometeorološki zavod Srbije, Beograd 2010.
• Pages on the Internet:
  Glossary: http://jadran.gfz.hr/pojmovnik.html
  Weather forecast sites – Serbian:
  http://www.hidmet.gov.rs/
  http://www.weather2umbrella.com/
  http://www.sewa-weather.com/
  http://www.meteos.co.rs/
  Weather forecast sites – foreign:
  http://www.westwind.ch/
  http://www.ecmwf.int/
  http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/
  http://www.wmo.ch/
  http://www.eumetnet.eu.org/

Additional material:

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Lectures:

10 points (2 hours a week)

Syllabus:

1. The basic concepts of the atmosphere. Global warming.

2. The radiation emitted by the Sun, the Earth and the atmosphere: The basic laws of radiation.

3. The heating of the Earth’s surface and the atmosphere. The air temperature.

4. Water in the Earth-atmosphere system: Air humidity.

5. Water in the Earth-atmosphere system: Fog, clouds, precipitation.

6. Air pressure: Definition, the equation of state and statics.

7. Airflow: Forces which influence the movement of air.

8. Airflow: Jet streams, regional and local winds.

9. Atmospheric disturbances: Air masses, fronts.

10. Atmospheric disturbances: Cyclones.

11. Atmospheric disturbances: Anticyclones.

12. Atmospheric disturbances: Disasters, tornados.

13 and 14. The presentation of term papers.

15. The final progress test.

Semester papers:

20 points

Colloquia:

20 points

Oral exam:

50 points