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Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts : Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation.

Contributor(s): Series: Geophysical monograph ; 281.Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-American Geophysical Union, 2024Copyright date: 2024Description: xiv, 351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781119700319
  • 1119700310
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Clouds and their climatic impactsDDC classification:
  • 551.57/6 23/eng/20230815
LOC classification:
  • QC921 .C567 2024
Summary: "Cloud Physics and Dynamics: Role and its Effects in Climate provides a brief overview to basics in each subfield, followed by a discussion of recent advances and remaining open questions along three "axes": radiation, circulation, and precipitation. Clouds are important because they affect the terrestrial radiative budget, reflecting incoming solar radiation and absorbing and reemitting outgoing terrestrial radiation. Then, clouds are not only generated by the global circulation but also feedback on it, for example in the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the mid-latitude storm tracks. Finally, changes to clouds mean changes to surface precipitation rates. These themes emphasize the motivations of better climate projections and rainfall forecasts better than traditional layout according to cloud types or modeling versus observational techniques."-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: 2024 New Titles
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC921 .C567 2024 1 Checked out 07/17/2025 50583020021428
Total holds: 0

Includes biblographical references and index.

"Cloud Physics and Dynamics: Role and its Effects in Climate provides a brief overview to basics in each subfield, followed by a discussion of recent advances and remaining open questions along three "axes": radiation, circulation, and precipitation. Clouds are important because they affect the terrestrial radiative budget, reflecting incoming solar radiation and absorbing and reemitting outgoing terrestrial radiation. Then, clouds are not only generated by the global circulation but also feedback on it, for example in the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the mid-latitude storm tracks. Finally, changes to clouds mean changes to surface precipitation rates. These themes emphasize the motivations of better climate projections and rainfall forecasts better than traditional layout according to cloud types or modeling versus observational techniques."-- Provided by publisher.

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