UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY TOURISM AND TRAVEL MANAGEMENT
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

PAPER III - CLIMATOLOGY AND WEATHER FORECASTING

Duration: 3hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

1. Weather and Climate - Definition of Climatology - Climatic elements - composition and structure of the atmosphere-insolation - Heat balance - Green house effect -Distribution of temperature

2. Atmospheric pressure - Distribution - vertical & horizontal - general circulation of the atmosphere - wind - types.

3. Moisture - forms of precipitation - types of rainfall - distribution - seasonal and spatial - cloud & its classification.

4. Airmasses & fronts - concepts - classification and properties - atmosphric disturbances - tropical and temporate cyclones.

5. Weather forecasting - definition - instruments- early weather charts - basis for weather forecasting - benefits of weather forecasting.

Reference:

1. Trewartha C.T.& Horn L.A. - Introduction to Climate - International Studies 1980.

2. Critchfield H.J. - General Climatology - Printice - Hall - New York - 1980

3. William Donn - Meteorology

4. LaL D.S. - Climatology - Chitanya Publishing House - 1988

5. Ramasastry A.A. - Weather & Weather Forecasting - Central Electrical Press - 1984