Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes
This is an updated and revised second edition of the book presenting new developments in the field of cloud-resolving modeling. The first edition of the book introduces the framework of cloud-resolving model, methodologies for analysis of modeling outputs
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Xiaofan Li Shouting Gao
Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes Second Edition
Springer Atmospheric Sciences
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Xiaofan Li • Shouting Gao
Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes Second Edition
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Shouting Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
Xiaofan Li Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
ISSN 2194-5217 Springer Atmospheric Sciences ISBN 978-3-319-26358-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26360-1
ISSN 2194-5225 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-26360-1 (eBook)
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Preface
Clouds and cloud systems and their interactions with larger scales of motion, radiation, and the Earth’s surface are extremely important parts of weather and climate systems. Their treatment in weather forecast and climate models is a significant source of errors and uncertainty. As computer power increases, it is beginning to be possible to explicitly resolve cloud and precipitation processes in these models, presenting opportunities for improving precipitation forecasts and larger-scale phenomena such as tropical cyclones which depend critically on cloud and precipitation physics. This book by Professor Shouting Gao of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Beijing and Dr. Xiaofan Li of NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) presents an update and review of results of high-resolution, mostly two-dimensional models of clouds and precipitation and their interactions with larger scales of motion and the Earth’s surface. It provides a thorough description of cloud and precipitation physics, including basic governing equations and related physics, such as phase changes of wate
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