Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2501915 Environmental Sciences | OB | 3 | 2 |
Students will need to have achieved the objectives of 1styear Physics. During the course meteorological and climatic issues will be developed using physical phenomena explained in this course assets.
The course pretends to be a quantitative and qualitative introduction to weather and climatology, in a
simple way but, at the same time, rigorous. At the end of the course students should be able to
understand different meteorological and climatic phenomena and scenarios, the feasibility of the
weather and climatic forecasts and their consequences.
The goal of this course is to give to environmental professionals basic ideas of how the atmosphere
works and how affects human activities. Meteorological risks and impacts should be considered in
environmental impact studies of projects, programs and activities, and the environmental experts
should be aware of its causes and consequences. Also due to the fact each time the urban population
is growing up and up issues related with air quality analysis and assessment in urban environments
are of capital relevance for environmental studies and in consequence, are studied in the course.
In another context it is needed that the experts in environmental issues get ready to understand and
manage actions to deal with extreme meteorological and climatic events, to develop and adopt
measures of prevention and / or adaptation.
1. A brief vision of the atmosphere
2. Atmospheric thermodynamics
3. Radiation
4. Atmpspheric dynamics
5. Aerosols
6. Pollution dispersion in the atmosphere
The course will be given entirely in Catalan. All the course material (slide presentations, problems, homework and exams) will be distributed in Catalan. Therefore, exams and problems in Spanish and English will be accepted.
This course will consist of theory lectures (3 hours per week) and solving practical problems (1 hour per week). Problem lists will be given to be solved. The solutions of the problems will be discussed in the problem classes.
The course also includes a practical work that students could do in small groups. The objective of the practice is to train student scientific communication skills.
The students will have to prepare, at least, two written exams: a mid term exam, a second exam at the end of the course. Both exams, if it is needed could be re-taken once.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Practical lectures | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 3, 5, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 |
Practices | 8 | 0.32 | 9, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 |
Theoretical lectures | 34 | 1.36 | 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Practical work | 16 | 0.64 | 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 |
Study and reading texts | 53 | 2.12 | |
Written work | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 11 |
Ther will be two compulsory exams. Students should get in each one, at least, a mark of 3,5 (over 10). If they fail, there is a resit exam at the end of the regular course.
In each exam students shouls respond some test questions and solve two practical problems. Those student that do not get the minimum mark will have the opportunity for a resit exam only if they have atended at least to 2/3 of the evaluation tests of the course.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Exam: first part | 40 | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 9, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 1, 12 |
Exam: second part | 40 | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 1, 12 |
Written work and/or practical molde | 20 | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 11 |
Reference books
C.Donald Ahrens Meteorology Today Thomson (Paraninfo), Madrid 2003
Roland Stull Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers Thomson 2002
J.Martín Vide, Mapas del tiempo: Fundamentos, interpetración e imágenes de satélite, Oikos-tau,
Vilassar de Mar, 1991
Jordi Mazón, Mariano Barriendos, Marcel Costa, El temps a Catalunya dia a dia, Ara llibres, 2009
J.M.Wallace i P.V. Hobbs, Atmospheric Science, Academic Press, New York, 1977
Gerard Conesa Prieto, Anàlisi meteorològica a la mar, Edicions UPC, Barcelona 1993
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S. P. Arya, Introduction to micrometeorology, Academic Press, 1988
W. Cotton, R. A. Pielke, Human Impacts on Weather and Climate, Cambridge, 1995.
R. G. Fleage, An Introduction to Atmospheric Physics, Academic Press, New York, 1980
V. Espert, P. Amparo, Dispersión de contaminantes en la atmósfera, Universidad Politécnica de
Valencia, Valencia, 2000
M.R.Estrela i M.M.Millán, Manual práctico de introducción a la meteorología, CEAM, 1994.
M. Grimalt, J. Martin-Vide i F.Mauri et. al., Els núvols, Edicions El Mèdol, 1995
D.L.Hartmann, Global Physical Climatology, Academic Press, San Diego, 1994
J.T.Houghton et al. (ed.),Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
J.E.Llebot, El canvi climàtic, Rubes Editorial, Barcelona, 1998
J.E.Llebot, Els fluids de la vida, Biblioteca Universitària n. 29, Ed. Proa. 1996
J.E. Llebot El temps és boig? i 74 preguntes més sobre el canvi climàtic, Rubes editorial, Barcelona 2005
W.D.Sellers, Physical Climatology, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1965.