Climatology
0
2024-2025
01013892
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
Lectures and practical classes.
The theoretical classes are lecture based.
Practical classes complement and clarify the theoretical concepts through solving practical exercises in cosmography, the analysis of aerological diagrams and basic synoptic maps, the graphical representation of climate information and the classification of climates.
Learning Outcomes
This class is an introduction to the study of the Earth's atmosphere on a global scale, with the fundamental objectives of analysis of climatic-meteorological variables that characterize it and the processes and factors that explain them.
It is intended that students understand "climate" from its temporal variability and spatial diversity.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Climatology: introduction
2. Cosmographic fundamentals of climate zonality. Rythms of insolation
3. Composition, structure and dynamics of the convective atmosphere
4. Energy balance and atmospheric temperature.
5. Atmospheric humidity and precipitation
6. General atmospheric circulation.
Atmospheric disturbances
7. Climactic Typology
Assessment Methods
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
- BARRY, R. G.; CHORLEY, R. J. (1999) - Atmósfera, Tiempo y Clima (trad. cast., 7ª ed.), Omega, Barcelona, 441p.
- CUADRAT, J. M.; PITA, M. F. (2000) - Climatología (2ª ed.), Cátedra, Madrid, 496p.
- ESTIENNE, P.; GODARD, A. (1998) - Climatologie (nouv. présent.), Armand Colin, Paris, 367p..
- HUFTY, A. (2001) - Introduction à la Climatologie, De Boeck Université, Bruxelles, 542p.
- PÉDELABORDE, P. (1982) - Introduction a l´Étude Scientifique du Climat (2ª ed.), SEDES, Paris, 353p.
- SELLERS, A. H.; ROBINSON, P. J. (1986) - Contemporary Climatologie, Longman Scientific and Tecnical, Hong-Kong, 439p.