GEOG 359 — CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY I
BA BA Geography and Rural Development · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
The course is structured to equip students with the knowledge and functioning of various climatic phenomena and their effects on man and his activities. In addition, the course will introduce them to the characteristics and management of various biological resources with special reference to those in West Africa. Topics to be treated include: air masses, fronts and associated weather conditions; tropical disturbances; easterly waves, tropical depressions, hurricane, thunderstorms, monsoon depressions; weather associated with synoptic systems; anticyclones, ridges, depressions, trough, cols etc. climatic classification such as the generic, rational as in Thornthwaite’s and Koppen’s will be treated.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
Other courses on this programme
- GEOG 351 — RESEARCH METHODS IN GEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 353 — PRINCIPLES OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT I
- GEOG 354 — APPLIED RURAL DEVELOPMENT II
- GEOG 355 — REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA
- GEOG 356 — REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF WEST AFRICA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GHANA
- GEOG 357 — GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY I
- GEOG 358 — GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY II
- GEOG 360 — CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY II
- GEOG 361 — REMOTE SENSING I
- GEOG 362 — GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
- GEOG 363 — RURAL RESOURCE ANALYSIS I
- GEOG 364 — RURAL RESOURCE ANALYSIS II
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