University Courses and Training
Training Courses
- Fortran 90 for use in scientific programming
- Using Matlab(Octave) for Meteorological Climatological problems
- Scientific Programming in the Field of Weather Forecast and Climate Modeling
Dynamical and Physical Climatology
- Components and Structure of Climate System
- Principal Physical Processes acting in Climate System
- Statistics of the Climate Variables
- The Solar Radiation and Global Surface Temperature Distribution
- Global Circulation of Atmosphere and Ocean
- Atmosphere Dynamics: Sinoptics Processes, Low Frequency Oscilation, Non- Linear Processes
- Climate Modelling: an Hierachy of Climate Models
- Climate Patterns: ENSO, Madden-Julian Circulation, North Atlantic Circulation, Azores Anticyclone
- Hydrological Cycle
- Sensitivity of Climate System and Feedbacks Mechanisms
- Natural and antropogenic components of Climate Change. Numerical Investigation of Climate evolution
Dynamical Meteorology
- Global Atmospheric Circulation. Global Circulation Models. Cyclones and Anticyclones
- Composition of Earth Atmosphere, Ozone, Water Vapour Thermodynamics, Scales of Atmospheric Motion.
- Static Atmosphere, Geostrophic Atmosphere, Static Instability, Thermal Wind
- Barotropic and Baroclinic Atmosphere
- Waves in Atmosphere (sound, Gravity, Rossby, Kelvin, entropy waves)
- Zonal Flows Instability, Lorenz Instability
- Boundary Layer
- Atmospheric Turbulence
- Cyclone and Anticyclone Nature, Blockings
- Circulation of Tropical Atmosphere
- Mesoscale Circulation: Sea Breeze, Mountain Winds, Tornado
- Numerical and Theoretical Models.
Solar and Thermal Radiation
- Solar radiation codes for models: input and output parameters; ultra violet, visible and near infrared spectral bands; two-stream adding method for radiative transfer calculation; k-distribution method for the calculation of gaseous absorption and scattering by aerosol and cloud particles (pseudo monochromatic intervals); optical parameters of aerosol and cloud particles; molecular scattering; cloud overlapping.
- Thermal radiation codes for models: various approaches of computing the transmission functions in different spectral bands; k-distribution method and table look-up method; effect of scattering due to clouds and aerosols; parameterization of cloud and aerosol optical parameters as functions of ice and water content and particle size.
- Solar radiation calculations based on Sun-Earth astronomical relationship: Sun-Earth distance; solar declination; equation of time; position of Sun relative to horizontal and inclined surfaces; extraterrestrial irradiation on a horizontal surface and inclined planes, configuration factors; solar radiation incident on tilted planes on the Earth's surface.
- Solar radiation measuring instruments: radiation sensors; measurement of direct irradiance; measurement of global irradiance - pyranometers; pyranometer characteristics, calibration and classification, pyranometers with shadow bands, measurements of bright sunshine duration.
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