1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Exercises	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

The main goal is to teach students about traditional and modern methods for the weather
analysis. Knowledge of such kind is necessary for all areas of theoretical and practical
meteorology: deployment of measurements, data analysis as well as weather nowcasting
and forecasting.

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Global Observing System ? World Weather Watch. Weather data control.
2. Analytic materials, stressing weather map projections (conic, cylindrical and polar-stereographic).
3. Objective analysis of the weather fields: fitting methods (polynomial and spectral), optimal
(statistical) interpolation, successive correction method and variational approach. Isoplet
construction technique.
4. Atmospheric systems: air masses, atmospheric fronts
(frontogenesis and frontolysis)
5. Jet stream including its genetic mechanism, baric
circulation systems (cyclone, anticyclone, trough and ridge)
6. Cyclogenesis (cyclolysis) and anticyclogenesis (anticyclolysis)
7. Tendencies of constant pressure surface
heights.
8. Differential characteristics of wind field
9. Streamlines and trajectories
10. Vertical atmospheric motion diagnosis.
11. Baric systems within global atmospheric circulation. 12. Lee cyclogenesis, especially on the southern side of the Alps.
13. Humidity field analysis and precipitation amount estimation. Atmospheric systems and the weather.
14. Orographic influences on the weather.
15. Coastal air circulation and the weather.

LEARNING MODES:
Attending teaching of the theory and exercises, studying of the literature and notes, deriving equations and analysis of the examples, independently solving problems.

METHODS OF MONITORING AND VERIFICATION
The progress of students is monitored and evaluated during the course (homework, oral presentations and other assignments) and on the final oral exam.

UVJETI ZA POTPIS
Homework reports; attending the classes at least for 50 %.

EXAMINATION METHODS:
The oral exam consists of written preparation and its oral presentation/discussion. Here the level of formal adoption of course topics (especially their understanding) is evaluated, observing the professional terminology.

1. Bluestein, H.B., 1992: Sinoptic-dynamic meteorology in midlatitudes, (Vol. I). Oxford University Press, New York. 431 pp.
2. Bluestein, H.B., 1993: Sinoptic-dynamic meteorology in midlatitudes, (Vol. II). Oxford University Press, New York. 431 pp.
3. Daley, R., 1991: Atmospheric data analysis.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 457 pp.
4. Pandžić, K., 2002: Analiza meteoroloških polja i sustava. HINUS, Zagreb. 314 pp.
5. Atlas, D., 1990: Radar in meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston,
   806 pp.
6. Blumen, 1990: Atmospheric processes over complex terrain. American Meteorological Society, Boston. 323 pp.
7. Carlson, T.N., 1994: Mid-latitude weather systems. American Meteorological Society, Boston. 507 pp.
8. Kurz, M., 1998: Synoptic meteorology. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach. 200 pp.
9. Palmen, E. and C.W. Newton, 1969: Atmospheric circulation systems - Their structure and physical interpretation. Academic Press, New York. 603 pp.
10. Petterssen, S., 1956: Weather analysis and forecasting (Vol. I and II). McGraw- Hill, New York, 428 (266) pp.
11. Radinović, Đ., 1969: Analiza vremena. Univerzitet u Beogradu, Beograd. 367 str.
12. Saucier, W.J., 1955: Principles of meteorological analysis. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 438 pp.
13. Schott, J.R. 1997: Remote sensing - the image chain approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 394 pp.
14. Zverev, A.S., 1977: Sinoptičeskaja meteorologia. Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad. 710 pp.

Enrollment :
Attended : Climatology I
Attended : Dynamic Meteorology 3

Mandatory course - Regular study - Meteorology and Physical Oceanography