- Introduction (purpose of the course, definitions and terms of reference, general description of the atmosphere)
- Radiative transfer (spectrum of radiation, quantitative description of radiation, radiation of a black body, atmospheric radiative balance, greenhouse effect)
- 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)
- Cloud microphysics (nucleation and condensation of vapor, evolution of a cloud, type and classification of clouds)
- Atmospheric Dynamics (kinematics of the large-scale horizontal flow, elementary cinematic properties of the flow, vorticity and divergence, deformation, streamlines versus trajectories, dynamics of horizontal flow, apparent and real forces, the horizontal equation of motion, the geostrophic wind, the effect of friction, the gradient wind, the thermal wind, suppression of vertical motions by planetary rotation, a conservation law for vorticity, potential vorticity
- 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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