School of Science
Department of Physics
19415
19415 Models of Atmospheric Circulation
Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS365
Course Content
- Overview of numerical models.
- Advances in numerical modeling.
- Coordinate systems.
- Numerical solution of the primitive equations.
- Basic methods of numerical solutions.
- Equation transformation to coordinate systems.
- Process parameterization (solar/terrestrial radiation, surface energy budget, cloud microphysics).
- Regional/mesoscale modeling.
- Initial and boundary conditions.
- Global scale modeling.
- Climate modeling.
- Model evaluation.
- Computer applications: Atmospheric model parametarisation, postprocessing application, model application, errors, visualization of results.