Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes

2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-26358-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 355 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 6801 g

Reihe: Springer Atmospheric Sciences

Updated and revised second edition

Includes five new chapters on convective-stratiform rainfall, budget-derived rainfall separation schemes, effects of doubled carbon dioxide on rainfall, modeling of Wegener- Bergeron-Findeisen process and precipitation predictability

Contains more than a hundred detailed illustrations about cloud-resolving modeling of convective processes

Comprehensive information on many research aspects related to convective development

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gao, Shouting

Li, Xiaofan

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Umweltphysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Convective-Stratiform Rainfall.- Budget-Derived Rainfall Separation Schemes.- Effects of Doubled Carbon Dioxide on Rainfall.- Modeling of Wegener- Bergeron-Findeisen Process.- Precipitation Predictability.- Phase Relation between Precipitation and Its Sources.- Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on Diurnal Variation of Rainfall.- Precipitation Efficiency and its relationship to Physical Factors.- Dependence of Precipitation Efficiency on Rainfall Type.

Über Autor(innen)

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.