HUOM! OPINTOJAKSOJEN TIETOJEN TÄYTTÄMISTÄ KOORDINOIVAT KOULUTUSSUUNNITTELIJAT HANNA-MARI PEURALA JA TIINA HASARI
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1. Course title
Konvektiiviset sääjärjestelmät ja ilmasto
Convective Weather Systems and Climate
Convective Weather Systems and Climate
2. Course code
ATM356
Aikaisemmat leikkaavat opintojaksot 53672 Konvektiiviset sääjärjestelmät ja ilmasto, 5 op
3. Course status: optional
-Which degree programme is responsible for the course?
Master's Programme in Atmospheric Sciences
-Which module does the course belong to?
ATM300 Advanced Studies in Atmospheric Sciences (optional for Study Track in Meteorology)
-Is the course available to students from other degree programmes?
Yes
4. Course level (first-, second-, third-cycle/EQF levels 6, 7 and 8)
Master’s level, degree programmes in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine = secondcycle
degree/EQF level 7
Doctoral level = third-cycle (doctoral) degree/EQF level 8
-Does the course belong to basic, intermediate or advanced studies (cf. Government Decree
on University Degrees)?
Advanced studies
5. Recommended time/stage of studies for completion
- or 2. year in MSc studies
6. Term/teaching period when the course will be offered
The course will be lectured every other year (even years) in the IV period.
7. Scope of the course in credits
5 cr
8. Teacher coordinating the course
Marja Bister
9. Course learning outcomes
-Description of the learning outcomes provided to students by the course
- See the competence map (https://flamma.helsinki.fi/content/res/pri/HY350274).
To understand and be able to apply the theory of equatorial waves and Rossby deformation radius to convection and convective weather systems.
To profoundly understand how the smallness of the Coriolis parameter affects the dynamics and the interaction between convection and dynamics
To understand the mechanisms of and factors affecting the following phenomena: Hadley and Walker cells, tradewind inversion, ITCZ, ENSO, Tropical cyclones, monsoon and MJO.
10. Course completion methods
-Will the course be offered in the form of contact teaching, or can it be taken as a distance
learning course?
-Description of attendance requirements (e.g., X% attendance during the entire course or
during parts of it)
-Methods of completion
Exam and a short presentation
11. Prerequisites
-Description of the courses or modules that must be completed before taking this course or
what other prior learning is required
Atmospheric thermodynamics, Introduction to atmospheric flow dynamics, Dynamics of atmospheric flow structures, Cloud physics
12. Recommended optional studies
-What other courses are recommended to be taken in addition to this course?
-Which other courses support the further development of the competence provided by this
course?
Mesometeorology
13. Course content
-Description of the course content
Morphology of convection
Tropical cyclones: observations, potential intensity theory, other factors affecting intensity, intensification mechanisms, propagation, damage
14. Recommended and required literature
-What kind of literature and other materials are read during the course (reading list)?
-Which works are set reading and which are recommended as supplementary reading?
Lecture notes and parts of Zhang's review paper on MJO
Supplementary material: Introduction to tropical meteorology (www.meted.ucar.edu)
15. Activities and teaching methods in support of learning
-See the competence map (https://flamma.helsinki.fi/content/res/pri/HY350274).
-Student activities
-Description of how the teacher’s activities are documented
Weekly lectures and presentations by students
16. Assessment practices and criteria, grading scale
-See the competence map (https://flamma.helsinki.fi/content/res/pri/HY350274).
-The assessment practices used are directly linked to the learning outcomes and teaching
methods of the course.
Grade is based on course exam. Bonuspoints based on the number of asked questions and comments. Bonuspoints can be up to 7% of maximum course exam points.