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Course Name	Turkish	Güneş ve Yer Radyasyonu
	English	Solar and Terrestrial Radiation
Course Code	MTO 225	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	3	-	2	1	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Filiz Türk Katırcıoğlu
Course Objectives		Characteristics of solar radiation, Thermal radiation, Astronomical and geographical factors, affected solar radiation, Extraterrestirial solar radiation and its spectral distribution. Hourly and daily solar radiation on horizontal and inclined surfaces in the extraterrestrial atmosphere, Absorption, scattering, reflection and cloud effect in the atmosphere, Solar radiation models, Long wave radiation in the earth-atmosphere systems and greenhouse effect
Course Description		1. Change of solar radiation in the atmosphere being one of the most important subjects of the atmospheric physics 2.Understanding the thermal radiation, energy balance, climate change and the physical events in the terrestrial and atmospheric system 3. Forming the basis in the solar energy practices
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