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

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)