Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation

• Main Authors: Pruppacher, H.R (Author), Klett, J.D (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 18
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Meteorology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.

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 clou...

Table of Contents:

• Historical Review
• Microstructure of Atmospheric Clouds and Precipitation
• The Structure of Water Substance
• Equilibrium Between Water Vapor, Water, Aqueous Solutions, and Ice in Bulk
• Surface Properties of Water Substance
• Equilibrium Behavior of Cloud Drops and Ice Particles
• Homogeneous Nucleation
• The Atmospheric Aerosol and Trace Gases
• Heterogeneous Nucleation
• Hydrodynamics of Single Cloud and Precipitation Particles
• Mechanics of the Atmospheric Aerosol
• Cooling of Moist Air
• Diffusion Growth and Evaporation of Water Drops and Snow Crystals
• Cloud Particle Interactions
• Growth of Cloud Drops by Collision, Coalescence and Breakup
• Growth of Ice Particles by Accretion and Ice Particle Melting
• Cloud Chemistry
• Cloud Electricity.