Duration
10h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in geography : climatology (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The bases (useful for climatology) of the programming language FORTRAN are taught: real vs integer, if/then/else, the loop (do), subroutine/function, how to read and write a ASCII file. These notions are illustrated within small programs and weather observations or climatology time series (NAO, ENSO, ...) are used to illustrate the interest of a programming language.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end, the student will be able to use FORTRAN (on Linux).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Exprience in using a programing language is an added value but not mandantory.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The teaching method is mainly based on concrete examples illustrating the main notions of FORTRAN and manipulating weather data (available in ASCII). Linux is used to compile the FORTRAN programs.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Mode of delivery: Face-to-face.
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
The exam consists of writing a small program reading and computing statistics of weather data.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Dr. Charles Amory and Charlotte Lang Dr. Xavier Fettweis Department of Geography - Laboratory of Climatology Web: http://www.climato.be/fettweis