Quantitative yet approachable clouds textbook for advanced students, researchers and professionals in atmospheric science, meteorology, environmental sciences/engineering, atmospheric chemistry.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
