Information
Course Code AME25
Semester 2
Category
ECTS Credits 9
Eclass
Professors
Proposed Bibliography

Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability, Eugenia Kalnay. Cambridge University Press, (2002).

Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling, Mark Z. Jacobson, Cambridge University Press, (2005).

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change, Wiley-Interscience, John H. Seinfeld and Spyros N. Pandis, (2006)

Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling, Roger Pielke, Academic Press, (2001).

Course Description
  1. The procedure of modeling
  2. Fundamental Equations: conservation of energy, mass and momentum.
  3. Coordinate systems – Discretization.
  4. Physical parameterizations: boundary layer, clouds, radiation, chemistry
  5. Solving methods
  6. Validation of atmospheric models
  7. Ensemble Forecasting