ATMOSPHERIC AND CLIMATE PROCESSES OVER MOUNTAINS

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ATMOSPHERIC AND CLIMATE PROCESSES OVER MOUNTAINS
Course code
R26009 (AF:504842 AR:294910)
Modality
Online
ECTS credits
3
Degree level
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)
Educational sector code
FIS/06
Period
Annual
Course year
1
Course learning objectives: The course provides an introduction to the atmospheric and climatic phenomena that characterise mountainous areas, on different spatial and temporal scales. The mechanisms conditioned by orography, both dynamic and thermal, and the phenomena associated with them (e.g. breeze circulations on slopes and in valleys, orographic convection, orographic precipitation) will be examined. Some illustrative physical-mathematical models of the processes will also be provided.
Course prerequisites: Basic physics and mathematics.
Definitive programme.