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, 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.

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Lecture 1: Introduction

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Lecture's slides lecture_1_introduction.pdf

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Lecture 2: Thermodynamics

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Lecture's slides 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

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Lecture's slides lecture_3_microphysics.pdf

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Lecture 4: Activation

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Lecture's slides lecture_4_activation.pdf

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Lecture 5: Condensation 1

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Lecture's slides lecture_5_condensation_1.pdf

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Lecture 6: Condensation 2

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Lecture's slides lecture_6_condensation_2.pdf

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Lecture 7: Coalescence

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Lecture's slides lecture_7_coalescence.pdf

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Lecture 8: Entrainment and mixing

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Lecture's slides lecture_8_entrainment.pdf

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CONSTANTS

Physical constants used in atmospheric physics
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constants.pdf

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Tutorial 1: Lapse rates

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tutorial_1_lapse_rate.pdf

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Tutorial 2: Adiabatic LWC; condensation rate

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tutorial_2_LWC.pdf

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Tutorial 3: Microphysics

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tutorial_3_microphysics.pdf
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Tutorial 4: Activation

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tutorial_4_activation.pdf

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Tutorial 5: Condensation

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tutorial_5_condensation.pdf

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Tutorial 6: Coalescence

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tutorial_6_coalescence.pdf
Long_JAS_1974.pdf

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Tutorial 7: Entrainment and mixing

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tutorial_7_entrainment.pdf

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