METEOROLOGY SYLLABUS FOR DNS JUNIOR

BATCH.

4.1 DESCRIBE THE COMPOSITION OF EARTH’S

ATMOSPHERE.

4.2 DEFINE TROPOSPHERE, TROPOPAUSE,

STRATOSPHERE, STRATOPAUSE, MESOSPHERE,
MESOPAUSE AND THERMOSPHERE.

4.3 EXPLAIN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, PRESSURE

GRADIENT, BAROMETRIC U CALCULATING DEW
TENDENCY, ISOBAR, AND THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN ATMOSPHERIC POINT PRESSURE AND
HEIGHT ABOVE SEA LEVEL. CARGO SWEAT

4.4 SKETCH AND EXPLAIN THE WORKING OF

ANEROID BAROMETER. SHIP SWEAT

4.5 DESCRIBE THE NATURE OF SOLAR RADIATION

(REFLECTION, ABSORPTION AND SCATTERING).
4.6 EXPLAIN HEAT EXCHANGE PROCESSES
(CONDUCTION, CONVECTION AND RADIATION).

4.7 DESCRIBE ENVIRONMENTAL LAPSE RATE,

INVERSION AND DIURNAL, SEASONAL AND
GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION OF TEMPERATURE.

4.8 DESCRIBE THE PROPERTIES OF WATER VAPOUR

IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND DEFINE SPECIFIC,
ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY. EXPLAIN
SATURATION, DEW POINT AND OUTLINE
KNOWLEDGE OF HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE
(EVAPORATION, CONDENSATION AND
PRECIPITATION).

4.9 SKETCH AND EXPLAIN THE WORKING OF

BAROGRAPH, HYGROMETER, STEVENSON’S
SCREEN, WHIRLING PSYCHROMETER,
ANEMOMETER, SEA WATER TEMPERATURE
BUCKET.