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Cloud Physics |
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| Other Titles: |
Microphysics of cloud formation |
| Authors: |
Haldoupis, Christos |
| Reviewer: |
Christakis, Nikolaos |
| Subject: | NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES > METEOROLOGY |
| Keywords: |
Amospheric Physics
Solar And Terrestrial Radiation Atmospheric Electricity Atmospheric Thermodynamics Cloud Physics Atmospheric Dynamics Ionospheric Physics |
| Description: | |
| Abstract: |
This chapter starts with a description of the main cloud types, followed by a presentation of the characteristics of atmospheric aerosols and their importance in cloud formation. The main part of this chapter deals with the physical mechanisms of cloud formation and cloud droplet growth by using basic laws to arrive at analytical expressions. This chapter deals also with the basic mechanisms of precipitation.
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| Table of Contents: |
Chapter 4. Physics of Clouds (26 pages)
4.1. The clouds 4.1.1. Types of clouds 4.1.2. Cloud formation mechanisms 4.2 Atmospheric Aerosols 4.3 Vapor Condensation in the Atmosphere 4.3.1. Homogeneous condensation 4.3.2. Heterogeneous condensation 4.4. Growth of Cloud Droplets 4.4.1. Growth of cloud droplets through condensation 4.4.2. Growth of cloud droplets through collisions and coalescence 4.4.3. Growth of cloud droplets during updrafts 4.5. Mechanisms of Rain and Snow 4.5.1. Mechanism of warm rain Bowman–Ludlam 4.5.2. Mechanism of Bergeron-Findeisen Chapter 4. Problems Chapter 4. Bibliography |
| Technical Editors: |
Gkikopoulos, Nikolaos |
| Type: |
Chapter |
| Creation Date: | 2015 |
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| License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/3277 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Haldoupis, C. (2015). Cloud Physics [Chapter]. In Haldoupis, C. 2015. Introduction to Atmospheric Physics [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/3277 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Is Part of: |
Introduction to Atmospheric Physics |
| Number of pages |
25 |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |