Li / Gao Precipitation Modeling and Quantitative Analysis

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-94-007-2381-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 251 Seiten

Reihe: Springer Atmospheric Sciences

The book examines surface rainfall processes through cloud-resolving modeling and quantitative analysis of surface rainfall budget and summarizes modeling and analysis results in recent seven years. The book shows validation of precipitation modeling against observations and derives a set of diagnostic precipitation equations. The book provides detailed discussions of the applications of precipitation equations to the examination of effects of sea surface temperature, vertical wind shear, radiation, and ice clouds on torrential rainfall processes in the tropics and mid-latitudes, and to the studies of sensitivity of precipitation modeling to uncertainty of the initial conditions and to the estimate of precipitation efficiency. The book can be used as a text book for graduate students and will be beneficial to researchers and forecasters for precipitation process studies and operational forecasts.

Xiaofan Li is a physical scientist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA and a master's degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has a doctorate and a master's degree in meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Xiaofan

Gao, Shouting

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Precipitation Modeling and Quantitative Analysis;4
2;Foreword;8
3;Introduction;10
4;Contents;12
5;Abbreviations and Acronyms;16
6;Chapter 1: Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Precipitation;18
7;Chapter 2: Precipitation Equations and Process Analysis;43
8;Chapter 3: Tropical Precipitation Processes;78
9;Chapter 4: Effects of Sea Surface Temperature;125
10;Chapter 5: Effects of Vertical Wind Shear;139
11;Chapter 6: Microphysical and Radiative Effects of Ice Clouds;151
12;Chapter 7: Cloud Radiative Effects;188
13;Chapter 8: Precipitation Efficiency;221
14;Chapter 9: Sensitivity of Precipitation Modeling to Uncertainty of Initial Conditions;231
15;Index;248