Conducted in
term:
2025/26Z
ISCED code: 0532
ECTS credits:
2
Language:
English
Organized by:
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management
(for:
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Severe weather outlook 2800-OG-EN-SWO
Course aim: Presentation of meteorological and synoptic factors of severe weather phenomena. Course content: Heatwaves. Floods. Huricanes. Thunderstorms and associated phenomena. Severe wind gusts. Extreme rainfalls. Meteorological models. Synoptic outlook. Forecasting severe weather cases. European Severe Weather Database.
Total student workload
Contact hours with teacher:
- lectures: 15 h
- consultations with teachers: 15 h
Self-study hours:
- literature studies - 10
- preparing to exam - 20
Total: 60 hrs (2 ECTS)
Learning outcomes - knowledge
Student obtains knownledge about basic meteorological aspects which leads to severe weather cases including synoptic scenarios.
Knows types of severe weather phenomena.
Knows future scenarios of extreme events due to climate change.
Learning outcomes - skills
Student can recognize thread from severe weather events.
Knows the regions classified in term of severe weather cases.
Understand the role of humans in climate change aspects.
Teaching methods
Informative and problem-based lecture with multimedia presentations.
Observation/demonstration teaching methods
- display
Expository teaching methods
- discussion
- informative (conventional) lecture
- informative (conventional) lecture
Exploratory teaching methods
- panel
- case study
- classic problem-solving
- case study
- classic problem-solving
Type of course
elective course
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Lectures: written exam in the form of a test to be completed,
required grade for:
51-60% - satisfactory grade,
61-70% - satisfactory plus,
71-80% - good,
81-90% - good plus,
91-100% - very good.
Practical placement
Not applicable
Additional information
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