Clouds and climate climate science's greatest challenge
Cloud research is a rapidly developing branch of climate science that's vital to climate modelling. With new observational and simulation technologies our knowledge of clouds and their role in the warming climate is accelerating. This book provides a comprehensive overview of research on clouds...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2020
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Table of Contents:
- Cloudy perspectives / Louise Nuijens and Christian Jakob
- Clouds as fluids / Bjorn Stevens and A. Pier Siebesma
- Clouds as particles / Hanna Pawlowska and Ben Shipway
- Clouds as light / Robert Pincus and Hélène Chepfer
- Conceptualising clouds / Stephan de Roode and Roel Neggers
- Parameterising clouds / A. Pier Siebesma and Axel Seifert
- Evaluating clouds / Christian Jakob and Jean-Louis Dufresne
- Tropical and subtropical cloud systems / Gilles Bellon and Sandrine Bony
- Midlatitude cloud systems / George Tselioudis and Kevin Grise
- Arctic cloud systems / Gunilla Svensson and Thorsten Mauritsen
- Clouds and aerosols / Johannes Quaas and Ulrike Lohmann
- Clouds and land / Cathy Hohenegger and Christoph Schär
- Clouds and warming / Sandrine Bony and Bjorn Stevens