MET 251 — INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY I
BSc BSc Meteorology and Climate Science · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Basic definitions: weather, climate, precipitation, humidity, temperature, pressure, winds; the Earth’s Atmosphere: structure, some basic physical laws: ideal gas law, Dalton’s law, virtual temperature, the hydrostatic equation, geopotential and geopotential height, scale height and hypsometric equation; the high atmosphere altitudes > 100 km: the ionosphere, magnetosphere; radiation: basics; radiative transfer: absorption, emission, scattering, the radiative transfer equation, energy balance and “green house effect”, the solar spectrum, absorption and emission processes in the atmosphere; climate change
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 200
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