Mixed-phase clouds: Observations and Modeling presents advanced current research topics on mixed-phase clouds. As the societal impacts of extreme weather and its forecasting grow there is a continuous need to refine atmospheric observations techniques and numerical models. Understanding the role of clouds in the atmosphere is increasingly vital for current applications such as prediction and prevention of aircraft icing, weather modification, and assessment of the effects of cloud phase partition in climate models. This book will provide the essential information needed to address these problems, with a focus on current observations, simulations, and applications. It is suitable for graduate students, researchers, and others involved current applications of clouds physics. Written by experts in their fields, chapters cover topics from observations, remote sensing methods, numerical modeling, and applications. Provides in-depth understanding and simulation of mixed-phase clouds over many regions of Earth, explaining their role in the weather and climateFeatures current research examples and case studies including those on advanced research methods from authors with experience in both academia and the industryDiscusses the latest advances in the area, providing the reader with access to the best practices in remote sensing and numerical modeling INDICE: 1. Introduction Observations 2. Ice nucleation in mixed-phase clouds 3. Detection of mixed-phase clouds from shortwave and thermal infrared satellite observations 4. Microphysical properties of convectively forced mixed phase clouds 5. Characteristics of mixed-phase clouds: contributions from the field campaigns and ground based networks 6. Spaceborne remote sensing and airborne in situ observations of Arctic mixed-phase clouds Modeling 7. Simulations of mixed-phase boundary layer clouds 8. Subgrid representation of mixed-phase clouds in a General Circulation Model 9. Southern Ocean cloud feedback in climate models 10. Climate sensitivity to mixed-phase clouds
- ISBN: 978-0-12-810549-8
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 350
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés