COURSE: BSC IN METEOROLOGY

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the meteorology industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• Academic literacy


• First course in physics


• Atmospheric processes


• Atmospheric circulation and climate


• Calculus


• Information literacy


• Dynamics and numerology of meteorology


• Climate and weather of SA

Second year subjects:

• Weather forecasting


• Community project


• Calculus


• Geographic data analysis


• Physical meteorology


• Linear algebra

Third year subjects:

• Atmospheric balance laws


• Atmospheric divergence


• Research project


• Quasi-geostrophic analysis


• Cloud and boundary layer dynamics

Careers: meteorologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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