Course Description & Objectives:
- Climate, the atmosphere (principle constituents, layers, the international standard atmosphere).
- Energy transfer methods; solar radiations short wave and long wave energy: the solar constant, black body, Stefan-Boltzmann’s law and Wein’s displacement law.
- The mean solar, earth and atmospheric temperatures and their significance on environments.
- The atmospheric temperature profile and its significance in climatology.
- Factors affecting solar short wave radiation in the atmosphere.
- The simple general circulation model and its limitations.
- Air masses and fronts and associated weather and climate patterns.
- The hydrological cycle and its relationship to general circulation.
- The water balance at a location area or region.
- Considerations in the derivation of the energy balance equation.
- The energy balance equation in derivation of climates.
- Climate and the environment.
- Climatology and environmental management.
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