Cloud Dynamics
Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Third General Assembly of IAMAP, Hamburg, West Germany, 17-28 August, 1981
Will be published approx. on 31. August 1982
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-90-277-1458-9 (ISBN)
Description
Proceedings of a Symposium held at Third General Assembly of IAMAP, Hamburg, West Germany, 17-28 August, 1981
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Series
Edition
1982 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
432 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
737 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-1458-9 (9789027714589)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-7890-4
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Cloud Dynamics
Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Third General Assembly of IAMAP, Hamburg, West Germany, 17-28 August, 1981
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Content
Shallow Convective Systems - Observations and Models.- An Introduction to Shallow Convective Systems.- An observational study of convective cloud streets.- Radiative influence on small scale convection within stratus cloud layers.- Infrared remote sensing of the vertical and horizontal distribution of clouds.- Long-lasting precipitation cells in stratiform clouds.- Lake-effect snow storms on Lake Michigan, USA (invited paper).- A similarity theory for unsaturated downdrafts within clouds.- Convective overturning and the saturation point.- Attempt to directly simulate cloud-radiation interaction in the case of small cumuli.- On the preferred mode of cumulus convection in a conditionally unstable atmosphere.- Toward a unified theory of atmospheric convective instability.- Cloud bands in the atmosphere.- Deep Convective Systems - Observations and Models.- An Introduction to Deep Convective Systems.- The variable nature of thunderstorm updrafts and precipitation.- Characteristics of vertical wind profiles near the most severe thunderstorms of South-Western France.- The development of the cumulonimbus clouds which move along a valley.- Comparison of radar observations of a devastating hailstorm and a cloudburst at Jan Smuts Airport.- Use of the radar differential reflectivity radar technique for observing convective systems.- Complex radar methods of hail cloud structure, evolution dynamics and microstructure.- A diagnostic study of the tornadic storm based on dual-Doppler wind measurements.- An experimental investigation of the factors governing the dynamic structure and intensity of atmospheric vortices.- Detection of convective storms based on penetrative cloud top from satellite infrared and raw- insonde data and gravity waves from Doppler sounder.- Precipitation inconvective storms: an observational and numerical study.- Observed and numerically simulated structure of a mature supercell thunderstorm (invited paper).- Turbulence parameterization in a deep convection model.- List of Participants/Contributors.