Cloud Dynamics

by Houze, Jr., Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9780123568809
• ISBN10: 0123568803
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Elsevier S & T

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 cloud that occurs in Earth's atmosphere, and the organization of various types of clouds in larger weather systems such as fronts, thunderstorms, and hurricanes.This book is aimed specifically at graduate students, advanced undergraduates, practicing researchers either already in atmospheric science or moving in from a related scientific field, and operational meteorologists. Some prior knowledge of atmospheric dynamics and physics is helpful, but a thorough overview of the necessary prerequisites is supplied.

Table of Contents

(Chapter Headings): Fundamentals: Identification of Clouds

Atmospheric Dynamics

Cloud Microphysics

Radar Meteorology

Phenomena: Shallow-Layer Clouds

Nimbostratus

Cumulus Dynamics

Thunderstorms

Mesoscale Convective Systems

Clouds in Hurricanes

Precipitating Clouds in Extratropical Cyclones

Orographic Clouds

Chapter

References

Subject Index

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