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Presentation
Presentation
The Meteorology Course focuses on raising awareness and providing students with knowledge in order to understand Meteorology and its degree of importance in the Aeronautics sector. The Meteorology UC emphasizes the relevance of information sources, the quality and integrity of weather data, and the relevance of the topic for entering the labor market.
It is intended, therefore, to provide the student with the necessary skills and competences to enable him to identify and use the knowledge, expertise and procedures required in the field of Meteorology, namely in the analysis and forecast of Weather in general that applies to Aeronautics.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 5
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
3 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT1656-5064
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
Atmosphere. Heat transfers, driving processes, convection and advection; Inversions. Atmospheric pressure and reduction to MSL; Air density: ratio with pressure and temperature.
ICAO Standard Atmosphere (ISA), altimeter, altimetry; Altimetric reading calculations.
Wind: its three primary causes; Friction layer variations.
Global circulation of the atmosphere; Anabolic and catabatic winds.
Mountain waves, Turbulence and Clear Air Turbulence (CAT).
Jet Streams: Features.
Thermodynamics and Physical states of water in the atmosphere and adiabatic processes.
Clouds, types and conditions of flight inside; Types of fog, precipitation and relation to clouds. Air masses; Types of fronts.
Pressure systems and different types.
Climatology, FIT; Other general phenomena.
Meteo hazards in flight; Ice, CAT, others.
Cumulonimbus and associated phenomena. Meteo information.
Weather charts.
Weather Information Exchange Models and Schema (WXCM-WXXM-WXXS).
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Objectives
Objectives
Understanding meteorology, its degree of importance and its cross-sectional action to most of the university areas linked to aeronautics;
To know the set of physical processes that occur in the atmosphere at the surface and altitude levels;
To know and interpret the global movement of the large masses of air and know how to identify the various meteorological systems that occur in it, from the level of the middle latitudes to the tropical regions;
Know the analysis and forecast of time in general that applies to aeronautics;
Skills to apply to aeronautics the concepts and knowledge acquired in the classes, particularly those relating to flight situations and air navigation in extreme weather conditions;
Knowledge of physical, thermodynamic, hydrodynamic and aerial phenomena that involve the constant transformation of meteorological time;
Interpretative skills and competences of these phenomena.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Individual investigation by the student of a topic (proposed/chosen by the student).
Preparation of an explanatory document of the subject studied, to be distributed to the other students in the class, and presented in the context of class.
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References
References
ICAO. (2018). Annex 3 to the ICAO: Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation (20th edition). Geneve. 978-92-9258-482-5.
CAE Oxford Aviation. (2014). JAA/EASA ATPL Training Manual 09: Meteorology.
Gultepe, Ismail at all. (2019). A Review of High Impact Weather for Aviation Meteorology. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 176. 1869¿1921. 10.1007/s00024-019-02168-6.
Gultepe, I., Feltz, W.F. (2019). Aviation Meteorology: Observations and Models. Introduction. Pure Appl. Geophys. 176, 1863¿1867. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02188-2 .
Safronov, A.N. (2019). Aviation Meteorology at Several Plane Crash Sites. Atmosphere, 10, 50. DOI: 10.3390/atmos10020050.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
