Physical Processes in Clouds and Cloud Modeling

Khain, Alexander P./ Pinsky, Mark

Cambridge University Press（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 640 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521767439
• DDC分類 551.576

Full Description

This book presents the most comprehensive and systematic description currently available of both classical and novel theories of cloud processes, providing a much-needed link between cloud theory, observation, experimental results, and cloud modeling. This volume shows why and how modern models serve as a major tool of investigation of cloud processes responsible for atmospheric phenomena, including climate change. It systematically describes classical as well as recent advancements in cloud physics, including cloud-aerosol interaction; collisions of particles in turbulent clouds; and the formation of multiphase cloud particles. As the first of its kind to serve as a practical guide for using state-of-the-art numerical cloud models, major emphasis is placed on explaining how microphysical processes are treated in modern numerical cloud resolving models. The book will be a valuable resource for advanced students, researchers and numerical model designers in cloud physics, atmospheric science, meteorology, and environmental science.

Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; List of symbols; 1. Clouds: definitions and significance; 2. Cloud particles and their representation in cloud models; 3. Basic equations; 4. Numerical methods used in cloud models; 5. Warm microphysical processes; 6. Microphysical processes in ice and mixed-phase clouds; 7. A powerful tool for cloud investigation; Appendix A. Tensors; Appendix B. Collision efficiency between drops and turbulent enhancement factor; Appendix C. Graupel-drop collision efficiency and kernel; Index.