MET 452 — PREDICTION OF TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEMS
BSc BSc Meteorology and Climate Science · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Schemes; Finite Difference Schemes for Space and Time; Barotropic and Equivalent Barotropic Models; Thermodynamic Energy Equation and Quasi-geostrophic; Vorticity Equation in Isobaric Coordinates; problems in numerical model schemes over the tropics; Introduction to Initialization and Parameterization in models; Solar Radiation, Terrestrial Radiation and Boundary Layer (radiation) Parameterization; Nowcasting: 10 day, Monthly, Seasonal, Climate; Introduction to GPS occultation weather prediction.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 400
Other courses on this programme
- GEOG 463 — ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT I
- MET 451 — AVIATION METEOROLOGY
- MET 453 — CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION/DISPERSION METEOROLOGY
- MET 454 — STATISTICAL CLIMATOLOGY
- MET 455 — PROJECT I
- MET 456 — PROJECT II
- MET 457 — CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
- MET 458 — AGROMETEOROLOGY
- MET 459 — TROPICAL CLIMATOLOGY
- MET 462 — BIOMETEOROLOGY AND HUMAN HEALTH
- MGT 471 — PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT I
- MGT 472 — PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT I
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