Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes

1. Front Matter

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2. Model and Physics

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   Pages 1-22

3. Analysis Methodology

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   Pages 23-35

4. Comparison Between Simulations and Observations

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   Pages 37-56

5. Surface Rainfall Processes

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   Pages 57-67

6. Structures of Precipitation Systems I: Cloud-Content Analysis

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7. Structures of Precipitation Systems II: Budget Analysis

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   Pages 89-126

8. Tropical Cloud Clusters

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   Pages 127-136

9. Cloud-Radiative and Microphysical Processes

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   Pages 137-158

10. Thermal Effects of Doubled Carbon Dioxide on Rainfall

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    Pages 159-189

11. Convective, Moist, and Dynamic Vorticity Vectors

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    Pages 191-206

12. Diurnal Variations of Tropical Oceanic Convection

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    Pages 207-223

13. Precipitation Efficiency

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14. Air-Sea Coupling

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15. Climate Equilibrium States

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16. Remote Sensing Applications

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17. Precipitation Predictability

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18. Modeling of Depositional Growth of Ice Crystal

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    Pages 325-336

19. Future Perspective of Cloud-Resolving Modeling

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20. Back Matter

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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, and validation of simulations with observations. It details important scientific findings in the aspects of surface rainfall processes, precipitation efficiency, dynamic and thermodynamic processes associated with tropical convection, diurnal variations, radiative and cloud microphysical processes associated with development of cloud clusters, air-sea coupling on convective scales, climate equilibrium states, and remote sensing applications. In additional to the content from the first edition of the book, the second edition of the book contains the new scientific results in the development of convective-stratiform rainfall separation scheme, the analysis of structures of precipitation systems, the thermal effects of doubled carbon dioxide on rainfall, precipitation predictability, and modeling depositional growth of ice crystal. The book will be beneficial both to graduate students and to researchers who do cloud, mesoscale and global modeling.

• cloud-resolving modeling
• convective processes
• tropical cloud clusters
• surface rainfall processes
• thermodynamic processes
• precipitation efficiency

• Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  Xiaofan Li

• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  Shouting Gao

Xiaofan Li is Qiushi Distinguished professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA and a master's degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has a doctorate and a master's degree in meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China.

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