MET 252 — INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY II
BSc BSc Meteorology and Climate Science · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Thermodynamics of moist air: Basics; interaction processes in the atmosphere: cooling or warming with constant pressure, horizontal mixing, adiabatic expansion or compression; Tephigram; Atmospheric Dynamics: Basics: forces acting on air parcels; the geostrophic wind, the frictional force, the general circulation, heat energy transport, frontal systems; Estimation of Environmental Effects: effects of destruction of the ‘ozone shield’, the greenhouse effect and the global warming
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 200
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