Clouds in the perturbed climate system : their relationship to energy balance, atmospheric dynamics, and precipitation / / edited by Jost Heintzenberg and Robert J. Charlson

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (615 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.57/6
• Soggetto topico: Cloud physics; Clouds - Dynamics; Climatic changes
• Soggetto non controllato: PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General; ENVIRONMENT/General
• Altri autori: HeintzenbergJ (Jost) CharlsonRobert J
• Note generali: Forum held March 2-7, 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; The Ernst Strüngmann Forum; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Trends in Observed Cloudiness and Earth's Radiation Budget; 3 Climatologies of Cloud-related Aerosols; 4 Cloud Properties from In-situ and Remote-sensing Measurements; 5 Clouds and Precipitation; 6 Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols; 7 Laboratory Cloud Simulation; 8 Cloud-controlling Factors; 9 Deep Convective Clouds; 10 Large-scale Controls on Cloudiness; 11 Cloud-controlling Factors of Cirrus; 12 Cloud-controlling Factors; 13 Cloud Particle Precursors ; 14 Cloud-Aerosol Interactions from the Micro to the Cloud Scale15 Weather and Climate Engineering; 16 Air Pollution and Precipitation; 17 What Do We Know about Large-scale Changes of Aerosols, Clouds, and the Radiation Budget?; 18 The Extent and Nature of Anthropogenic Perturbations of Clouds; 19 Global Indirect Radiative Forcing Caused by Aerosols; 20 Simulating Global Clouds; 21 Observational Strategies from the Micro- to Mesoscale; 22 Observational Strategies at Meso- and Large Scales to Reduce Critical Uncertainties in Future Cloud Changes ; 23 Aerosols and Clouds in Chemical Transport Models and Climate Models24 Current Understanding and Quantification of Clouds in the Changing Climate System and Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties; Abbreviations; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Here, experts consider the many roles that clouds play in the changing climate - one of the least understood and most puzzling aspects of atmospheric science.
• Titolo autorizzato: Clouds in the perturbed climate system
• ISBN: 0-262-29369-2; 0-262-25544-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782858603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Strüngmann Forum reports