1. Co-ordinate systems used in meteorological prognostic models: z-system, p-system, isentropic system, common s-system, hybrid system, co-ordinate transformations.
2. Objective analysis methods of different meteorological elements, spatial interpolation and its properties, optimum interpolation.
3. Methods of initialization of meteorological models.
4. Parametrization of physical processes and "subgrid-scale" processes (radiation processes, cloud microphysics, turbulence, for example).
Formulation of model equations in various coordinate systems, methods of objective analysis, initialization, parametrization of physical and subgrid scale processes.