| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Meteorology | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | Undergraduate studies | |||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | ||||||||||
| Name of the course | Solar activity-weather and climate on the Earth | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Dragana Vujović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | ||||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 6 | Status (required/elective) | ||||||||
| Access requirements | Dynamic meteorology, Weather analysis | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | Understand the variability of the Sun's activity and its interaction with the atmosphere, which will help to differentiate the natural and anthropogenic impacts on the climate. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Adopt new knowledge about the impact of Sun's activity on the weather and the climate on Earth. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Measuring and modeling of the total and spectral solar irradiance. 2. Physical causes of variability of irradiance. 3. Proxy data. 4. Number of sunspot and their variation on long time scales. 5. Maunder minimum. 6. How much Sun changed from Maunder minimum until now? 7. Irradiance variability during the Holocene. 8. Milankovic's cycles. 9. Clouds and solar activity. 10. Impact of solar variability on the climate. 11. Dynamical effects in the stratosphere. 12. Solar activity and regional climate variations. 13. Solar magnetism. 14. Review of recent research. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Lectures were followed by practical exercises of students with an assistant. Exercises include: working with data obtained from meteorological observations and from observation of solar activity, analysis of these data, their comparison and search for correlations. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Benestad R. E., 2006: Solar activity and Earth's climate, Springer, pp. 316 | |||||||||
| 2 | JD Haigh, M Lockwood, MS Giampapa, 2004: The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate, Springer, 425. | |||||||||
| 3 | Vardavis I. M., Taylor F. W., 2007: Radiation and Climate, Oxford University Press, pp. 492 | |||||||||
| 4 | S. Solanki, N. Krivova, J. Haigh, 2013: Solar Irradiance Variability and Climate. Прегледни рад. Solar Activity and Climate, 85 стр. | |||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, consultations, computational exercises, seminars, oral exam. | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assessed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 5 | written examination | 0 | |||||||
| practicals | 5 | oral examination | 70 | |||||||
| papers | ||||||||||
| presentations | 20 | |||||||||