Course detail

Climatology for Civil Engineers

FAST-9H1Acad. year: 2020/2021

Construction climatology is subdiscipline of technical climatology which is part of branch of knowledge general climatology.
This discipline concerns with climate and studies long-term aspects and global influences of meteorological processes proceeding on Earth.
It concerns general relations of climate forming, climate changes, relations between climatic factors and phenomenon and between climatic factors alone. Construction climatology is methodically applied climatology on building conditions of a human.
It presents analysis and synthesis of climatology data for their use during construction works. Lectures will give general information and basic ideas of this discipline, related phenomenon and relations will be explained.
The other part of lectures will give basic information on practical use and application during design and construction work.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Understanding fundamentals of physics of atmosphere.
Preview of fundamental meteorological elements and phenomenous.
Acquaint with fundamentals methods measurements these elemments.
Understanding about use contextbwith buiding.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Meteorology and climatology -weather and climate meaning of
climatology for building industry.
2. Atmosphere as component of climatic system.
Composition of the atmosphere.
Boundary layer climates.
Surface energy budget.
Climate classification.
3. Fundamental meteorological elements and phenomenons and their
climatological characterizations.
4. Air temperature - fundamental concepts.
Units and relations.
5. Soil temperature - fundamental of climatological profiles.
6. Solar radiation.
Surface receipt of solar radiation and its effects.
Energy transfer within the earth-atmosphere system.
7. Cloud formation.
Condensation nuclei.
Cloud types.
Global cloud cover.
8. Humidity.
Evaporation.
Condensation.
9. Precipitation characterisics.
Forms of precipitation.
Rainfall intensity.
10.Solid precipitation.
11.Wind - fundamental concepts.
Principles of atmospheric motion.
Local winds.
Mountain and valley winds.
Winds due to topographic barriers.
12.Design reference year.
Methods for construction of a reference year from a longer
meteorological record.
13.Synergy - fundamental concepts.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Acquire knowledges from this subject creates basis understanding of actions in atmosphere, formby meteorology and statistic evaluation in climatology.
These knowledges connected with application in follow subjectes, into account impacts of outside atmosphere.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Kříž, Schneider, Tolasz: Cvičení z meteorologie, klimatologie a hydrologie. Ostravská univerzita 1994

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer