Overview
- The first book to focuse on cloud-resolving modeling of convective processes, with almost a hundred detailed illustrations
- Comprehensive information on many research aspects related to convective development
- Provides a thorough description of cloud microphysics and precipitation-radiation interaction
- Investigates the similarities and differences between two- and three-dimensional cloud-resolving modeling and the future perspective of its application to global domain
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 Xiaofan Li of NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Services (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 water, radiation and mixing. Model results are compared with observations from the 1992-93 Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) experiment. The importance of the ocean to tropical convective systems is clearly shown here in the numerical results of simulations with their air-sea coupled modeling system. While the focus is on tropical convection, the methodology and applicability can be extended to cloud and precipitation processes elsewhere.
The results described in this well-written book form a solid foundation for future high-resolution model weather forecasts and climate simulations that resolve clouds explicitly in three dimensions—a future that has great promise for the understanding and prediction of weather and climate for the great benefit of society.
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“The book focuses on clouds and precipitation and their interaction with larger scales of motion and the Earths surface in e.g. coupled ocean-cloud-resolving atmosphere models. … The book comprises 13 well-written chapters, all of which include a chapter-specific list of references. … A large number of figures … illustrates results derived as well as concepts presented. … The book is densely written and addresses graduate students and researches with interest in cloud-, precipitation-, atmospheric-, and general modeling.” (Nina Kirchner, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1217, 2011)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Shouting Gao: 1968-B.S. Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China; 1981-M.S. Chinese University of Science and Technology, China; 1988-Ph.D. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; from 1990 to 1992, a Postdoc at the University of Dundee, UK; from 1992 to 1995, a visiting scientist at the University of Oklahoma, USA; since 1996, a professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Xiaofan Li: 1982-B.S. Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China; 1985-M.S. Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China; 1993-Ph.D. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; 1993-1994, Assistant Researcher, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; 1994-2001, Contract Research Scientist, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA; from 2001-present, Physical Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Research and Applications, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes
Authors: Shouting Gao, Xiaofan Li
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8276-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7829-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8276-4Published: 03 April 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 206
Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Earth Sciences, general, Classical and Continuum Physics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences