Cloud dynamics
Clouds play a critical role in the Earth's climate, general atmospheric circulation, and global water balance. Clouds are essential elements in mesoscale meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, atmosphericradiation, and weather forecasting, and thus must be understood by any student or researcher in the atmospheric sciences. Cloud Dynamics provides a skillful and comprehensive examination of the nature of clouds--what they look like and why, how scientists observe them, and the basic…
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- Full title :Cloud dynamics / Robert Houze, Jr.
Summary
Clouds play a critical role in the Earth's climate, general atmospheric circulation, and global water balance. Clouds are essential elements in mesoscale meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, atmosphericradiation, and weather forecasting, and thus must be understood by any student or researcher in the atmospheric sciences. Cloud Dynamics provides a skillful and comprehensive examination of the nature of clouds--what they look like and why, how scientists observe them, and the basic dynamics and physics that underlie them. The book describes the mechanics governing each type of clou.
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- Publication Date:2014.
- Edition:Second edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Elsevier
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 432 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780080959955, 0080959954, 9780080921464, 0080921469
- oclc:ocn910878801
- LC Classification:QC921.6.D95
- Dewey Decimal:551.576
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Cloud Dynamics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; List of Symbols; Part I: Fundamentals; Chapter 1. Identification of Clouds; 1.1 Atmospheric Structure and Scales; 1.2 Cloud Types Identified Visually; 1.3 Cloud Systems Identified by Satellite; Chapter 2. Atmospheric Dynamics; 2.1 The Basic Equations; 2.2 Balanced Flow; 2.3 Anelastic and Boussinesq Approximations; 2.4 Vorticity; 2.5 Potential Vorticity; 2.6 Perturbation Form of the Equations; 2.7 Oscillations and Waves; 2.8 Adjustment to Geostrophic and Gradient Balance; 2.9 Instabilities.
2.10 Representation of Eddy Fluxes2.11 The Planetary Boundary Layer; Chapter 3. Cloud Microphysics; 3.1 Microphysics of Warm Clouds; 3.2 Microphysics of Cold Clouds; 3.3 Types of Microphysical Processes and Categories of Water Substance in Clouds; 3.4 Water-Continuity Equations; 3.5 Explicit Water-Continuity Models; 3.6 Bulk Water-Continuity Models; Chapter 4. Radar Meteorology; 4.1 General Characteristics of Meteorological Radars; 4.2 Reflectivity Measurements; 4.3 Polarization Data; 4.4 Doppler Velocity Measurements; Part II: Phenomena; Chapter 5. Shallow-Layer Clouds.
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