Meteorology

The meteorology master program is intended to be a training of meteorologists who will have appropriate atmospheric-oriented scientific viewpoint and high level of theoretical and practical knowledge by the end of the programme. They will have the skill set to be able to apply the practice, measurement and observation-oriented analysis methods, as well as the knowledge of weather forecasting and climate modelling. They will also obtain scientifically based meteorological and environmental viewpoint. Depending on their ambitions, they will be able to continue their studies in a PhD programme. The courses are divided into two parts. Students have compulsory courses covering general meteorology fields required for everybody (e.g. advanced mathematics, fluid dynamics, dynamical meteorology, informatics, climatology, synoptical meteorology, environmental protection and numerical modelling). By the end of the first semester, students have to choose a specialization: weather forecaster or climate researcher. The specialization will cover 30 credits of compulsory classes in the next three semesters. The courses of the specializations cover the full spectrum of the selected field. Students with missing background in a particular field of meteorology are required to fulfil prescribed BSc classes up to 20 additional credits. The master thesis work is taken into account as 20 credits.