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Seminar on Climatology - NMET514

Title:	Klimatologický seminář
Guaranteed by:	Department of Atmospheric Physics (32-KFA)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2020
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	Mgr. Michal Belda, Ph.D. doc. Mgr. Michal Žák, Ph.D.
Class:	DS, meteorologie a klimatologie
Classification:	Physics > Meteorology and Climatology

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Annotation -

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (30.05.2008)

Actual topics in climatology, global and regional climate models, climate variability and changes, climate change scenarios, extreme events

Aim of the course -

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (20.05.2008)

To familiarize students with contemporary problems in climatology

Course completion requirements - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jaroslava Kalvová, CSc. (11.10.2017)

Podmínkou zakončení předmětu - získání zápočtu- je příprava a přednesení tří prezentací, každá v rozsahu cca 30 min, na téma uvedené v sylabu v průběhu semestru.

Literature -

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (30.05.2008)

Kiehl, J.T., Ramanathan, V. (eds.): Frontiers of Climate Modeling.Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Jacobson, M.Z.: Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling. Cambridge University Press, 1999

relevant journals

Teaching methods -

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (20.05.2008)

Seminar - active form (students' presenation, discussion)

Syllabus -

Last update: KALVOVA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (20.05.2008)

Actual problems in climatology, current projects. Physical climate processes and feedbacks. Advances in the development of the AOGCM and regional climate models. Linear and nonlinear techniques of downscaling methods. Climate variability - recent methods and discussions. Climate change scenarios, sources of uncertainty. Czech Republic's scenarios. Past climate changes. Extreme events.