subject

Meteorological Data Processing

lecturers

Dr. Barcza Zoltán, associate professor, Dr. Breuer Hajnalka, assistant lecturer

credits

0+2=2

period

5

curriculum

The importance of meteorological data, data formats, databases. The basics of data treatment. The fundamentals of programming, the basics of the FORTRAN programming language. Simple algorithms, file I/O. The basics of computer graphics, data visualization. The software GRADS for displaying meteorological data, data input and manipulation. The data format GRIB.

literature

Dave Taylor: Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours

William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling: Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN Example Book : The Art of Scientific Computing GRADS on-line documentation: http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/index.html

GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) Technical Reference and Cookbook on-line: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/pdf/GMT_Docs.pdf

form of tuition

practical exercises

mode of assessment

written exam, reporting