GEF4310 – Cloud physics
Course description
Course content
Cloud condensation nuclei, formation of cloud droplets. Growth of cloud droplets by condensation and coalescence. Formation and growth of ice crystals. Mixing of air masses and convection. Precipitation processes, weather radar, thunderstorms, hail. Numerical cloud models.
Learning outcome
The student will be able to carry out meteorological work within the areas of clouds, evaporation and precipitation.
Admission
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Prerequisites
Recommended previous knowledge
Some basic knowledge of atmospheric thermodynamics and cloud physics, GEF2200 – Atmospheric physics (continued)
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with GEF9310 – Cloud Physics (continued)
- 10 credits overlap with GEO4922 – Cloud Physics
- 10 credits overlap with GEO9922 – Cloud Physics
6 credits against GF325
Teaching
Approx. two hours of lectures per week. Approx. two hours of exercises/colloquia per week. The course has mandatory assignments.
Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet, are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the Studies administration, email address: studieinfo@geo.uio.no