AREN 408 — Agro-Meteorology and Climatology
Agricultural Engineering · University of Ghana
Solar radiation, short and long wave radiation, direct and diffuse radiation, Net radiation, measurement and estimation; radiation utilization in photosynthesis; Energy balance/Bowen ratio; Evaporation and evapo-transpiration models; Soil temperatures; Drought; Windbreaks and shelter belts. Introduction to Meteorological Instrumentation and Observation; Weather Analysis/Forecasting; Physical Climatology - Causes of Climatic Phenomena including Heat and Water balance of the Earth‘s Atmosphere system and application of the Physical Principles involved in Agro-meteorology and Hydrology.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- AREN 400 — Final Year Project
- AREN 401 — Farm Machine Design
- AREN 402 — Technology of Tractor and Implement
- AREN 403 — Rural Engineering
- AREN 404 — Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
- AREN 405 — Maintenance and Management of Agricultural Machinery
- AREN 406 — Storage of Agricultural Products and Cold Chain Management
- FAEN 401 — Law for Engineers
- FAEN 402 — Principles of Management & Entrepreneurship
- FPEN 409 — Engineering and Design of Food Process III: Plant Products
- AREN 101 — Engineering Graphics
- AREN 102 — Engineering Drawing
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).