W - agro-meteorology and landscape water balance
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The module is an elective from the subject area "Science and Practice". The 2 SWS course is offered in the winter semester and has a value of 1 ECTS credit.
| Target group: | Students of the Bachelor program "Organic Agriculture" Students of the Master program "Organic Agriculture". |
| Content: | 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, precipitation forms and wind events. Interpretation of weather maps and observations for weather forecasting. Landscape water balance (H. Hofmann): Introduction to hydrological basics. Presentation of the components of the landscape water balance (e.g. precipitation, evaporation, seepage, runoff, methods of balancing). Discussion of individual water body types (flowing and standing waters) as landscape-shaping elements and the importance of groundwater. Explanation of influences of land use and management on the individual components of the landscape water balance. |
| Objectives: | Fundamentals of meteorology and landscape water balance. |
| Form: | Weekly lecture.. Field trip to a meteorological station. |
| Evidence: | Final discussion with short exam. |
| Contact: | Dr. Hubertus Hofmann; Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Jungwirth |