SUBJECT
Title
Synoptic meteorology 4
Type of instruction
lecture + practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2+1
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Conceptual models of synoptical scale weather phenomena: weather fronts, rapid cyclogenesis, wave development, substructures in fronts, non-frontal synoptic scale phenomena, mediterranean cyclones; Practice: the tools of weather analysis and forecast
Readings
Bluestein, H. B., 1992: Synoptic-dynamic meteorology in midlatitudes.Volume I. Principles of kinematics and dynamics. Oxford UniversityPress, New York, 431 p. Bluestein, H. B., 1993: Synoptic-dynamic meteorology in midlatitudes. Volume II. Observations and theory of weather systems. OxfordUniversity Press, New York, 594 p. http://www.zamg.ac.at/docu/Manual/SatManu/main.htm