Physical Processes in Clouds and Cloud Modeling

By Alexander P Khain and Mark A. Pinsky

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521767431
• ISBN13: 9780521767439
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 4.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.7" x 11.3"