W - Agricultural meteorology and landscape water balance
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The module is an elective subject from the subject area "Science and Practice". The 2 SWS course is offered in the winter semester and is worth 1 ECTS credit.
| Target group: | Students of the Bachelor's degree program "Organic Agriculture" Students of the Master's degree program "Organic Agriculture" |
| Contents: | Agricultural meteorology (O. Jungwirth): Fundamentals for understanding global and local weather patterns. Presentation of measurement methods and instruments with a special reference to phenology. Formation and movement of high and low pressure areas. Cloud formation, forms of precipitation and wind events. Interpretation of weather maps and observations for weather forecasting. Landscape water balance (H. Hofmann): Introduction to hydrological principles. Presentation of the components of the landscape water balance (e.g. precipitation, evaporation, seepage, runoff, methods of balancing). Discussion of individual types of water bodies (flowing and standing waters) as elements shaping the landscape and the importance of groundwater. Explanation of the influences of land use and land management on the individual components of the landscape water balance. |
| Objectives: | Fundamentals of meteorology and the landscape water balance. |
| Form: | Weekly lecture. Excursion to a weather station. |
| Verification: | Final discussion with short examination. |
| Contact: | Dr. Hubertus Hofmann; Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Jungwirth |