GEOG 213 — Introduction to Weather and Climate
Geography and Resource Development · University of Ghana
This is an introductory survey of weather components and processes and their measurements. It will examine climate elements and their control factors, data aggregation and representation, geographic classification of climatic and vegetation types, scope and purpose of climatology, the atmosphere: structure and composition, Structure of climatological networks, Basic concepts in the study of climatology, weather elements, their measurements and units of statistical aggregation. Physical environmental factors and their controls on weather and climate, as well as representation of climatic data: the Station Model, Global distribution of climates and vegetation will be looked at.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- GEOG 211 — Introduction to Geographic Thought
- GEOG 212 — Geomorphological Processes and Landforms
- GEOG 214 — Principles and Methods of Cartography
- GEOG 321 — Soils and Biogeography
- GEOG 323 — Regional Geography of Africa (One region outside West Africa)
- GEOG 325 — Theory and Practice of Geography
- GEOG 327 — Introduction to Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 331 — Arid Lands
- GEOG 111 — Introduction to Physical Geography
- GEOG 112 — Introduction to Human Geography
- GEOG 322 — Introduction to Resource Analysis
- GEOG 324 — Regional Geography of West Africa, with Special Reference to Ghana
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).