Learning outcome

After completing the course, students should have the following qualifications regarding knowledge, skills, and general competence:

• General knowledge of how topography affects local climate
• Familiarity with the main local factors that affect local climate
• Knowledge of how human modification of environments affects the local energy, water and momentum budgets in the boundary layer
• Ability to use existing literature and theory to evaluate how planned human modifications of local environments may affect the local climate
• Ability to place local climate information in a wider context by the combined analysis of local climate data and available climatological datasets
• Ability to convey specific topics in writing
• Ability to present relevant problems and analyses to specialists and the general public
  
  

Course Description

Key themes:

• Physical basis of boundary layer climates
• Climates of vegetated and non-vegetated surfaces
• Climates of man-modified environments
• Topographic influence on climate
• Links between large-scale and local climates

Teaching and Learning Methods

The main topics will be covered in lectures and in seminars with student presentations. The students are required to analyze a dataset and sum up their results in a report where they also demonstrate their knowledge of relevant literature.

Assessment Methods

The report will constitute 40% and a final written examination (3 hours) 60% of the final grade (A-E).

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean