1. Identify the balanced horizontal flow, its approximations and types, as well as its equations. Geostrophic winds and their properties, and downhill winds and their properties.2. Familiarity with trajectories and streamlines, vertical shear of geostrophic winds: convection winds. Also the atmosphere, the barotropic atmosphere and the baroclinic atmosphere, vertical variations of pressure systems.3. Understanding the properties of velocity fields, divergence in Cartesian coordinates, divergence from the continuity equation, divergence of geostrophic flow.· 4. Identifying the mechanism of generating and dissolving fronts.
Intended learning outcomes
a. Knowledge and understanding:1. The student should familiarize himself with the types of equilibrium horizontal flow and its various approximations and equations. To also know the characteristics of geostrophic winds and downhill winds.2. The student should enumerate the paths and flow lines in the atmosphere and analyze the vertical changes of the pressure systems.3. To explain the mechanism of generation and decay of the cold air front. hot air front united air frontB. Mental skills:1. The student analyzes the balanced horizontal flow and its various types, in addition to analyzing the geostrophic and downhill wind equations.2. The student should deduce the paths and flow lines in the atmosphere and analyze the vertical changes of the pressure systems.c. Practical and professional skills:1. To distinguish the properties of the geostrophic flow from the properties of the cyclostrophic flow.2. To use the appropriate electronic equipment to understand the paths and flow lines in the atmosphere, as well as to understand the vertical changes of the pressure systems.3. The student should store in his memory the conditions that must be met for an air front to form, as well as the conditions that must be met for an air front to vanish.Dr.. General and transferable skills:1. The student should be able to use appropriate audio and visual means to present information about the barotropic atmosphere and the baroclinic atmosphere. Also about vertical changes of pressure systems.2. The student should be able to work in a team to find possible solutions to the gradient wind equation, the Rossby number, the effect of creep on the horizontal acceleration, and the gistrophic wind.
Teaching and learning methods
1. Theoretical lectures.2. Practical exercises.3. Self-learning in preparing assignments and collaborative or group learning in applications during the lecture.4. Seminars and presentations.
