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Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation: Reprinted 1980
Cloud physics has achieved such a voluminous literature over the past few decades that a significant quantitative study of the entire field would prove unwieldy. This book concentrates on one major aspect: cloud microphysics, which involves the processes that lead to the formation of individual cloud and precipitation particles. Common practice has shown that one may distinguish among the following additional major aspects: cloud dynamics, which is concerned with the physics responsible for the macroscopic features of clouds; cloud electricity, which deals with the electrical structure of clouds and the electrification processes of cloud and precipitation particles; and cloud optics and radar meteorology, which describe the effects of electromagnetic waves interacting with clouds and precipitation. Another field intimately related to cloud physics is atmospheric chemistry, which involves the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the life cycle and characteristics of its gaseous and particulate constituents. In view of the natural interdependence of the various aspects of cloud physics, the subject of microphysics cannot be discussed very meaningfully out of context. Therefore, we have found it necessary to touch briefly upon a few simple and basic concepts of cloud dynamics and thermodynamics, and to provide an account of the major characteristics of atmospheric aerosol particles. We have also included a separate chapter on some of the effects of electric fields and charges on the precipitation-forming processes.
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Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation: Reprinted 1980
Cloud physics has achieved such a voluminous literature over the past few decades that a significant quantitative study of the entire field would prove unwieldy. This book concentrates on one major aspect: cloud microphysics, which involves the processes that lead to the formation of individual cloud and precipitation particles. Common practice has shown that one may distinguish among the following additional major aspects: cloud dynamics, which is concerned with the physics responsible for the macroscopic features of clouds; cloud electricity, which deals with the electrical structure of clouds and the electrification processes of cloud and precipitation particles; and cloud optics and radar meteorology, which describe the effects of electromagnetic waves interacting with clouds and precipitation. Another field intimately related to cloud physics is atmospheric chemistry, which involves the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the life cycle and characteristics of its gaseous and particulate constituents. In view of the natural interdependence of the various aspects of cloud physics, the subject of microphysics cannot be discussed very meaningfully out of context. Therefore, we have found it necessary to touch briefly upon a few simple and basic concepts of cloud dynamics and thermodynamics, and to provide an account of the major characteristics of atmospheric aerosol particles. We have also included a separate chapter on some of the effects of electric fields and charges on the precipitation-forming processes.
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Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation: Reprinted 1980

Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation: Reprinted 1980

by H.R. Pruppacher, J.D. Klett
Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation: Reprinted 1980

Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation: Reprinted 1980

by H.R. Pruppacher, J.D. Klett

Overview

Cloud physics has achieved such a voluminous literature over the past few decades that a significant quantitative study of the entire field would prove unwieldy. This book concentrates on one major aspect: cloud microphysics, which involves the processes that lead to the formation of individual cloud and precipitation particles. Common practice has shown that one may distinguish among the following additional major aspects: cloud dynamics, which is concerned with the physics responsible for the macroscopic features of clouds; cloud electricity, which deals with the electrical structure of clouds and the electrification processes of cloud and precipitation particles; and cloud optics and radar meteorology, which describe the effects of electromagnetic waves interacting with clouds and precipitation. Another field intimately related to cloud physics is atmospheric chemistry, which involves the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the life cycle and characteristics of its gaseous and particulate constituents. In view of the natural interdependence of the various aspects of cloud physics, the subject of microphysics cannot be discussed very meaningfully out of context. Therefore, we have found it necessary to touch briefly upon a few simple and basic concepts of cloud dynamics and thermodynamics, and to provide an account of the major characteristics of atmospheric aerosol particles. We have also included a separate chapter on some of the effects of electric fields and charges on the precipitation-forming processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789027711069
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 03/31/1980
Series: Atmospheric & Oceanographic Sciences Lib
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978
Pages: 714
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

1 Historical Review.- 2 Microstructure of Atmospheric Clouds and Precipitation.- 3 The Structure of Water Substance.- 4 Equilibrium Between Water Vapor, Water, Aqueous Solutions, and Ice in Bulk.- 5 Surface Properties of Water Substance.- 6 Equilibrium Behavior of Cloud Drops and Ice Particles.- 7 Homogeneous Nucleation.- 8 The Atmospheric Aerosol.- 9 Heterogeneous Nucleation.- 10 Hydrodynamics of Single Cloud and Precipitation Particles.- 11 Cooling of Moist Air.- 12 Mechanics of the Atmospheric Aerosol.- 13 Diffusion Growth and Evaporation of Water Drops and Ice Crystals.- 14 Cloud Particle Interactions-Collision, Coalescence, and Breakup.- 15 Growth of Cloud Drops by Collision and Coalescence.- 16 Microphysics of Ice Particle-Drop Interactions.- 17 The Electrical State Of the Atmosphere and Its Effects on Cloud Microphysics.- Appendices.- A-4.9 Convenient Formulations for Determining the Saturation Vapor Pressure Over Water and Ice (Lowe and Ficke, 1974).- A-7.1 Relations from Statistical Mechanics.- A-10.1 Equations of Fluid Flow.- A-10.2.2 Stream Function Formulation for Axisymmetric, Incompressible Flow.- A-10.3.3 Drop Oscillations.- A-10.3.4 Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of Two Superposed Fluids.- A-12.4 Mutual Sedimentation and Diffusion of Aerosol Particles.- A-14.1 Nearest Neighbor Distance Between Cloud Drops.- A-14.3 Superposition Method for Stokes Flow.- A-14.4.2 Special Problems 1, 2, 3 for Two Spheres in Steady State Stokes Row.- A-14.4.3 Details of the Slip-Flow Correction.- A-14.4.4 Flow Field and Forces for Two Spheres in Modified Oseen Flow.- A-14.5 Drop Interactions in Turbulent Air (de Almeida, 1975).- A-15.2.1.2 Correlations in a Shastic Coalescence Process (Bayewitz et al. 1974).- A-15.2.2 Particular Solutions to the SCE.- A-15.2.4.3 A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Shastic Coalescence.- A-15.2.5 Parameterization of Accretion and Hydrometeor Self-Collection.- A-17.5.5 Two Charged Conducting Spheres in a Background Electric Field.- References.- List of Principal Symbols.- Table of Physical Constants.- Index of Subjects.
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