Dennis Lamb

Physics and Chemistry of Clouds (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107086647
• Artikelnr.: 52849383

Autorenporträt

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.