Subject Code: CL5L316	Subject Name: Mountain Meteorology	L-T-P:  3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s):  Nil
Latitudinal, altitude and topographical effects of mountain on meteorological elements; Circulation systems related to orography, mountain  and valley winds; Climatic characteristics of mountains, energy budgets, cloudiness, precipitation, evaporation, fog, lightening, snow avalanches  and valley air pollution; some  case studies, the equatorials mountains of New Guina, the Himalayas, sub- tropical  desert  mountains, the Rocky and the Alps. General properties of mountain perturbations, adiabatic meso-scale perturbations in a straight atmospheric flow, adiabatic synoptic scale perturbations, computation, of the dissipation of mechanical energy resulting from  a mountain perturbation, modelling aspects of mountain waves, mountain generated momentum fluxes, theory of linear gravity waves, orographic gravity-wave drag, its parameterisation and influence in general circulation models.
Text/Reference Books: David Whiteman. Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications, Oxford University Press Roger G. Barry. Mountain Weather and Climate, Cambridge University Press F.K. Chow. Mountain Weather Research and Forecasting, Springer