Physics and Chemistry of Clouds

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-89910-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

Clouds affect our daily weather and play key roles in the global climate. Through their ability to precipitate, clouds provide virtually all of the fresh water on Earth and are a crucial link in the hydrologic cycle. With ever-increasing importance being placed on quantifiable predictions - from forecasting the local weather to anticipating climate change - we must understand how clouds operate in the real atmosphere, where interactions with natural and anthropogenic pollutants are common. This textbook provides students - whether seasoned or new to the atmospheric sciences - with a quantitative yet approachable path to learning the inner workings of clouds. Developed over many years of the authors' teaching at Pennsylvania State University, Physics and Chemistry of Clouds is an invaluable textbook for advanced students in atmospheric science, meteorology, environmental sciences/engineering and atmospheric chemistry. It is also a very useful reference text for researchers and professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lamb, Dennis

Verlinde, Johannes

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Umweltphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geochemie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. The atmospheric setting
3. Equilibria
4. Change
5. Cloud thermodynamics
6. Cloud formation and evolution
7. Nucleation
8. Growth from the vapor
9. Growth by collection
10. Evolution of supersaturation
11. Warm clouds
12. Cold clouds
13. Cloud chemistry
14. Electrification
Appendix A. Cloud classification
Appendix B. Basics of thermodynamics
Appendix C. Boltzmann distribution
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Verlinde, Johannes
Hans Verlinde is an Associate Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. He is an observational meteorologist who has studied clouds in the Antarctic, at the equator and in the Arctic. He is currently the site scientist for the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility at Barrow on the North Slope of Alaska, and he teaches classes in atmospheric thermodynamics, cloud physics, mesoscale meteorology and radar meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. After a start in meteorology as a weather forecaster, he developed a passion for clouds, and likes to look at clouds from all sides now, from up and down, from inside out.

Lamb, Dennis
Dennis Lamb is Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Lamb worked as a researcher for nearly fourteen years at the Desert Research Institute (Reno) before embarking on a teaching career at Pennsylvania State University. With more than forty years of observational and laboratory research experience and more than twenty years teaching cloud physics and atmospheric chemistry at both undergraduate and graduate levels, he now realizes that the best path toward understanding clouds is to understand water itself, at the molecular level. The deeper the understanding, the greater becomes the appreciation of clouds as gate keepers in the water cycle and energy budget of Earth. This book is the culmination of his career studying the physics and chemistry of water and clouds.

Dennis Lamb is Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Lamb worked as a researcher for nearly fourteen years at the Desert Research Institute (Reno) before embarking on a teaching career at Pennsylvania State University. With more than forty years of observational and laboratory research experience and more than twenty years teaching cloud physics and atmospheric chemistry at both undergraduate and graduate levels, he now realizes that the best path toward understanding clouds is to understand water itself, at the molecular level. The deeper the understanding, the greater becomes the appreciation of clouds as gate keepers in the water cycle and energy budget of Earth. This book is the culmination of his career studying the physics and chemistry of water and clouds.

Hans Verlinde is an Associate Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. He is an observational meteorologist who has studied clouds in the Antarctic, at the equator and in the Arctic. He is currently the site scientist for the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility at Barrow on the North Slope of Alaska, and he teaches classes in atmospheric thermodynamics, cloud physics, mesoscale meteorology and radar meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. After a start in meteorology as a weather forecaster, he developed a passion for clouds, and likes to look at clouds from all sides now, from up and down, from inside out.