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Clouds, their formation, optical properties, and effects / edited by Peter V. Hobbs, Adarsh Deepak.

By: Contributor(s): New York : Academic Press, 1981Description: xiv, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0123507200
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.57/6 19
LOC classification:
  • QC921.48 .S95 1980
Contents:
Scales involved in the formation and organization of clouds and precipitation / Peter V. Hobbs -- Techniques for probing cloud microstructure / R.G. Knollenberg -- The microstructure of atmospheric clouds and precipitation / H.R. Pruppacher -- Fog structure / James E. Jiusto -- Radiation characteristics of clouds in the solar spectrum / Stephen K. Cox -- On the diurnal properties of clouds from geostationary satellite observations / Garry E. Hunt -- Some aspects of the optical properties of ice clouds / Kuo-nan Liou -- Laser measurements in clouds / A.I. Carswell -- Transmission and reflectivity of ice clouds by active probing / C.M.R. Platt -- A review of the theory of multiple scattering of lidar beams in clouds / James A. Weinman -- Pulsed blue-green propagation through clouds and fogs / G.C. Mooradian and M. Geller.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC921.48 .S95 1980 1 Available 50583000212047
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC921.48 .S95 1980 2 Available 50583000212039
Total holds: 0

"Technical proceedings of the Symposium on Clouds: Their Formation, Optical Properties, and Effects, held in Williamsburg, Virginia, May 13-14, 1980"--P. xiii.

"Sponsored by the Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina ..."P. opp. t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scales involved in the formation and organization of clouds and precipitation / Peter V. Hobbs -- Techniques for probing cloud microstructure / R.G. Knollenberg -- The microstructure of atmospheric clouds and precipitation / H.R. Pruppacher -- Fog structure / James E. Jiusto -- Radiation characteristics of clouds in the solar spectrum / Stephen K. Cox -- On the diurnal properties of clouds from geostationary satellite observations / Garry E. Hunt -- Some aspects of the optical properties of ice clouds / Kuo-nan Liou -- Laser measurements in clouds / A.I. Carswell -- Transmission and reflectivity of ice clouds by active probing / C.M.R. Platt -- A review of the theory of multiple scattering of lidar beams in clouds / James A. Weinman -- Pulsed blue-green propagation through clouds and fogs / G.C. Mooradian and M. Geller.

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