Screen LibraryPhysics and dynamics of clouds and precipitation /
"This key new textbook provides a state-of-the-art view of the physics of cloud and precipitation formation, covering the most important topics in the field: the microphysics, thermodynamics, and cloud-scale dynamics. Highlights include: the condensation process explained with new insights from...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This key new textbook provides a state-of-the-art view of the physics of cloud and precipitation formation, covering the most important topics in the field: the microphysics, thermodynamics, and cloud-scale dynamics. Highlights include: the condensation process explained with new insights from chemical physics studies; the impact of the particle curvature (the Kelvin equation) and solute effect "-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 452 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-444) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107005563 : 1107005566 |
| Index Number: | QC921 |
| CLC: | P426.5 |
| Call Number: | P426.5/W246 |
| Contents: | Preface -- 1. Observation of clouds -- 2. The shape and size of cloud and precipitation particles -- 3. Molecular structures of water substance -- 4. Bulk thermodynamic equilibrium among water vapor, liquid water, and ice -- 5. Surface thermodynamics of water substance -- 6. Aerosol in the atmosphere -- 7. Nucleation -- 8. Hydrodynamics of cloud and precipitation particles -- 9. Diffusion growth and evaporation of cloud and precipitation particles -- 10. Collision, coalescence, break-up and melting -- 11. Cloud drop population dynamics in warm rain process -- 12. Fundamental cloud dynamics - |