Location

College of Maritime Transport and Technology

Objectives

• On completion of this course, students should be competent to understand the earth's atmosphere and its composition, describe the types of air masses and understand the weather associated, classify types of clouds, define Tropical Revolving Storm (T.R.S.) and understand their development, use various meteorological instruments, read the weather chart and be familiar with its symbols, calculate the relative humidity and the dew point temperature, predict the wind direction and wind speed.

Outcomes

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Course Contents

1. Introduction & Composition and layers of atmosphere – Weather elements..2. Heat and air temperature – DALR – SALR – ELR.3. Atmospheric pressure.4. Water Vapor Cycle in Atmosphere.5. Clouds – Precipitation.6. Stability and instability in the atmosphere7. Meteors -Thunderstorms – Visibility.8. Surface Wind - General Circulation of Pressure.9. Wind over Earth surface – Local Wind.10. Air mass and Fronts.11. Pressure distributions and associated Weather.12. Synoptic Charts - Weather Services for Shipping.