Course Details
Meteorology and Climatology
Academic Year 2025/26
DSB024 course is part of 4 study plans
DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year
DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year
Deep knowledge of meteorology, novel measuring devices and measuring techniques.
Sources of information, climatological and meteorological databases.
Measurement of meteorological data and statistical processing.
Detailed characterization EU and CR climate.
Climate change, global warming, greenhouse effect, air pollution.
Dynamic and statistic downscaling techniques, softwares and datasets (climate databases).
Applications of climate change into water management problems.
Sources of information, climatological and meteorological databases.
Measurement of meteorological data and statistical processing.
Detailed characterization EU and CR climate.
Climate change, global warming, greenhouse effect, air pollution.
Dynamic and statistic downscaling techniques, softwares and datasets (climate databases).
Applications of climate change into water management problems.
Credits
8 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
Basic knowledge of natural sciences, statistics and probability, basic knowledge of artificial intelligence.
Aims
Summary of basic knowledge of meteorology and climatology
Thorough knowledge of selected parts of meteorology and climatology
Meteorological instruments
New information on climate change
Thorough knowledge of selected parts of meteorology and climatology
Meteorological instruments
New information on climate change
Orientation in meteorological data measurement, processing and interpretation. Knowledge in global warning problems and their application into water management tasks.
Basic Literature
MUNZAR, J., KRŠKA K., SOBÍŠEK B, Meteorologický slovník výkladový terminologický. Academia Praha, 1993. ISBN:80-85368-45-5. (cs)
RUDA, A., Fyzická geografie, Klimatologie a hydrogeografie pro učitele, Masarykova univerzita, Brno, 2013, online: http://is.muni.cz/elportal/?id=0000000 (cs)
SCHNEIDER, S.h., Terry L. ROOT T. L., MASTRANDREA M. D., Encyclopedia of climate and weather (2 ed.). Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 2011, eISBN: 9780195313864. (en)
IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contri-bution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. In Press. (en)
RUDA, A., Fyzická geografie, Klimatologie a hydrogeografie pro učitele, Masarykova univerzita, Brno, 2013, online: http://is.muni.cz/elportal/?id=0000000 (cs)
SCHNEIDER, S.h., Terry L. ROOT T. L., MASTRANDREA M. D., Encyclopedia of climate and weather (2 ed.). Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 2011, eISBN: 9780195313864. (en)
IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contri-bution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. In Press. (en)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- Introduction to meteorology, nomenclature, literature and other sources of information.
- Summary of basic knowledge of meteorology.
- Summary of basic knowledge of meteorology.
- Meteorological instruments, measurement of selected meteorological variables and their processing.
- Meteorological instruments, measurement of selected meteorological variables and their processing.
- New information on meteorology.
- Climatology – terminology, sources of information. Climate classification.
- Climate of EU and Czech Republic – thorough characterization.
- Climate change, scenarios, impacts.
- Atmospheric pollution, pollutants and their minitoring.
- Dynamic and statistic downscaling techniques, softwares and datasets (climate databases).
- Dynamic and statistic downscaling techniques, softwares and datasets (climate databases).
- Applications of climate change into water management problems.