Course: Terrain Climatology

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Course title Terrain Climatology
Course code KGG/QTEC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Vysoudil Miroslav, doc. RNDr. CSc.
Course content
Data gathering by use automatic/manual instruments. Data anylysis and interpretation, local climatic effects identification and their impacts in landscape, topoclimatic map construction.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Observation, Demonstration
Learning outcomes
Introduction to practical metods of terrain climatological research by use up to date instruments.
Analyse and interpret meteorological data acquired by field measurements.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Knowledge within range of lectures and literature.
Recommended literature
  • Baily, W. G., Oke, T. R., Rouse, W. R. (eds.). (1997). The Surface Climate of Canada. McGill-Queens University Press.
  • Bonan, G. (2002). Ecological Climatology : Concepts and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Geiger, R., Aron, R. H., Todhunter, P. (2003). The Climate Near the Ground (6th Edition). Rowman and Littlefield Publisher.
  • Vysoudil, M. (2008). Surface Atmosphere Layer Temperature Regime (Case Study of the Nature Park Bystřice River Valley, The Nízký Jeseník Highland, Czech Republic). Moravian Geographical Reports, vol. 16, no. 3.


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