Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA							2023_24
Subject	WEATHER: FORECASTING AND MODELLING					Code	01735014
Study programme	1735 - MASTER UNIVERSITARIO EN RIESGOS NATURALES
Descriptors	Credit.	Type	Year	Period
	2	Compulsory	First	Second
Language	Castellano Ingles
Prerequisites
Department	QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS
Coordinador	GARCÍA ORTEGA , EDUARDO				E-mail	egaror@unileon.es jlmarm@unileon.es anavm@unileon.es
Lecturers	GARCÍA ORTEGA , EDUARDO MARCOS MENÉNDEZ , JOSÉ LUIS NAVARRO MARTINEZ DE LA CASA , ANDRES
Web	http://
General description
Tribunales de Revisión	Tribunal titular Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS SANCHEZ GOMEZ , JOSE LUIS Secretario QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS LOPEZ CAMPANO , LAURA Vocal QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS MERINO SUANCES , ANDRES Tribunal suplente Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS FRAILE LAIZ , ROBERTO Secretario QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS ZORITA CALVO , MIGUEL Vocal QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS CALVO GORDALIZA , ANA ISABEL

Topic	Sub-topic
Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecasting	1. Historical Introduction: Meteorology and Climatology. 2. Weather prediction models. 3. Initial conditions; boundary conditions; discretization; parameterization schemes. 4. Global Circulation Models, Earth System Models, Limited Area Models. Mesoscalar Models. 5. Chaos. Deterministic vs. Probabilistic models. 6. Verification. 7. Statistical models.

Methodologies  ::  Tests
	Class hours	Hours outside the classroom	Total hours
Lecture	12	18	30
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms	7	7	14
Assignments	0	5	5
Extended-answer tests	1	0	1
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies   ::  

	Description
Lecture
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms
Assignments

Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms Lecture

Description

	Description	Qualification
Assignments		20
Lecture		80
Other comments and second call

Basic	Holton, J. R., An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Academic Press, NY, 1992 Jollife, I. T.; Stephenson, D. B., Forecast verification. A practitioner's guide in atmospheric sciences, Wiley, 2003 Pielke, R. A., Mesoscale meteorological modeling, Academic Press, 1984 Wilks, D. S., Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Academic Press, San Diego, 1995 www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf, WRF user's guide, ,
Complementary

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

OBSERVING AND WATCHING WEATHER / 01735012 SYNOPTIC AND MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY / 01735013