- Introduction (purpose of the course, definitions and terms of reference, general description of the atmosphere)
- The Climatic System (ocean and atmosphere, history of the earth's climate, atmospheric circulation and large-scale oceanic, the North Atlantic Oscillation, cycles of Milankovitch, the EPICA project)
- Atmospheric thermodynamics (gas law, hydrostatic equation, first law of thermodynamics, adiabatic processes, water vapor in the atmosphere, static stability, second law of thermodynamics and entropy)
- Radiative transfer (spectrum of radiation, quantitative description of radiation, radiation of a black body, atmospheric radiative balance, greenhouse effect)
- Cloud microphysics (nucleation and condensation of vapor, evolution of a cloud, type and classification of clouds)
- Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics (Dimensions and physical units, scale analysis, fundamental forces, non-inertial reference systems and apparent forces, total derivative, vector form of the equation of motion in rotating coordinates, scale analysis of the equations of motion, equation of continuity, problems and exercises)
- Elementary Applications of Basic Equations (equations in isobaric coordinates, balanced flows, trajectories and flow lines, thermal wind, vertical motions, tendency of surface pressure, problems and exercises)
- The Planetary Limit Layer (atmospheric turbulence, turbulent kinetic energy, equations of motion in the planetary boundary layer, problems and exercises)
- Meteorological systems (extratropical cyclones, orographic effects, instruments and observation networks, analysis and interpretation of weather maps on the ground and at high altitude)
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