This introductory course aims to show how weather phenomena are linked to classical physical principles applied to the atmosphere. Main goals are:

-to provide the fundamentals physical concepts and equations necessary for understanding the state of the atmosphere;

- to introduce mathematical simplifications of the terms in the equations;

- to provide the basis for an examination of adiabatic processes and the atmospheric stability and instability ;

- to illustrate basic instruments used for surface and upper meteorological observations

- to provide the fundamentals of weather systems

The course will deal also with exercises involving  calculations on temperature inversions, lapse rate, moisture in atmosphere; some types of exercises require practise (weather symbols, weather maps analysis and soundings)