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Cloud Physics

Academic year: 2019/2020
Semester: winter

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

Basic information on cloud thermodynamical and microphysical processes responsible for cloud droplet formation and evolution, and interactions aerosol - cloud - precipirtation will be presented. The existing knowledge will be complemented with open questions and new challenges in cloud physics.

Description of microphysics in cloud numerical models will be also presented.

We will discuss observation and measurements techniques in cloud physics and interpretation of results.

Pruppacher   Rogers&Yau  

 
Pruppacher, H.R. and J.D. Klett (1997). Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 954 pp.   Rogers, R.R. and M.K. Yau (1989). A Short Course in Cloud Physics. New York: Pergamon Press, 293 pp.   Lamb, D. and J. Verlinde (2011). Physics and Chemistry of Clouds. Cambridge University Press, 584 pp.   Lohmann, U., F. Luond, and F. Mahrt. An Introduction to Clouds. From the Microscale to Climate. Cambridge University Press, 391 pp.

 

 

 

COURSES MATERIALS
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lecture_1_introduction.pdf
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lecture_2_thermodynamics.pdf
Clouds vs Fluids - chapter form Clouds and Climate book
EUCLIPSE_BOOK_Clouds_as_Fluids.pdf
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lecture_3_microphysics.pdf
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lecture_4_activation.pdf
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lecture_5_condensation_1.pdf
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lecture_6_condensation_2.pdf
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lecture_7_coalescence.pdf
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lecture_8_entrainment.pdf
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Physical constants used in atmospheric physics

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constants.pdf
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tutorial_1_lapse_rate.pdf
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tutorial_2_LWC.pdf
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tutorial_4_activation.pdf
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Lecture documents:
tutorial_7_entrainment.pdf
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