Clouds, their formation, optical properties, and effects /

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.; Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory (U.S.); United States. Army Research Office.; Symposium on Clouds: Their Formation, Optical Properties, and Effects Williamsburg, Va.)
Group Author: Hobbs, Peter Victor, 1936-2005. (Editor); Deepak, Adarsh. (Editor)
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 1981.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123507204
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiv, 497 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Index Number: QC921
CLC: P426.5-532
Contents: Scales involved in the formation and organization of clouds and precipitation / Peter V. Hobbs -- Techniques for probing cloud microstructure / R.G. Knollenberg -- The microstructure of atmospheric clouds and precipitation / H.R. Pruppacher -- Fog structure / James E. Jiusto -- Radiation characteristics of clouds in the solar spectrum / Stephen K. Cox -- On the diurnal properties of clouds from geostationary satellite observations / Garry E. Hunt -- Some aspects of the optical properties of ice clouds / Kuo-nan Liou -- Laser measurements in clouds / A.I. Carswell -- Transmission and reflectivity of ice clouds by active probing / C.M.R. Platt -- A review of the theory of multiple scattering of lidar beams in clouds / James A. Weinman -- Pulsed blue-green propagation through clouds and fogs / G.C. Mooradian and M. Geller.