GEOG 471 — APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY I
BA BA Geography and Rural Development · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
The course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and functioning of various climatic phenomena and how the earth’s climate and its variability occur across space and time, their effects on man and his activities. It is also to introduce them to the characteristics and management of various biological resources with special reference to those in West Africa. There will be in-depth study of 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 and climatic classification (rational and generic-Thornthwaite’s and Koppen’s). Practical exercises will include field data collection and modelling of results for analysing and projecting changes through time.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
Other courses on this programme
- CS 451 — INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION OF SOIL SCIENCE
- GEOG 451 — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT I
- GEOG 452 — REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT II
- GEOG 453 — SPATIAL ORGANISATION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES I
- GEOG 454 — SPATIAL ORGANISATION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES II
- GEOG 455 — POVERTY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
- GEOG 456 — RURAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES
- GEOG 457 — INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 458 — INDUSTRIALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- GEOG 459 — MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 460 — HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
- GEOG 461 — POPULATION GEOGRAPHY
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