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1 online resource (xv, 597 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) |
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Strüngmann Forum reports |
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Strüngmann Forum reports.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Ernst Striingmann Forum ix -- List of Contributors xiii -- 1 Introduction 1 -- Jost Heintzenberg and Robert J. Charlson -- 2 Trends in Observed Cloudiness and Earth's 17 -- Radiation Budget: What Do We Not Know -- and What Do We Need to Know? -- Joel R. Norris and Anthony Slingo -- 3 Climatologies of Cloud-related Aerosols 37 -- Part 1: Particle Number and Size -- Stefan Kinne -- Part 2: Particle Hygroscopicity and Cloud 58 -- Condensation Nucleus Activity -- Ulrich Pi5schl, Diana Rose, and Meinrat O. Andreae -- 4 Cloud Properties from In-situ and Remote-sensing 73 -- Measurements: Capability and Limitations -- George A. Isaac and K. Sebastian Schmidt -- 5 Clouds and Precipitation: Extreme Rainfall 107 -- and Rain from Shallow Clouds -- Yukari N. Takayabu and Hirohiko Masunaga -- 6 Temporal and Spatial Variability of 127 -- Clouds and Related Aerosols -- Theodore L. Anderson, Rapporteur -- Andrew Ackerman, Dennis L. Hartmann, George A. Isaac, -- Stefan Kinne, Hirohiko Masunaga, Joel R. Norris, Ulrich P6schl, -- K. Sebastian Schmidt, Anthony Slingo, and Yukari N. Takayabu -- 7 Laboratory Cloud Simulation: Capabilities 149 -- and Future Directions -- Frank Stratmann, Ottmar Mehler Raymond Shaw, and Heike Wex -- 8 Cloud-controlling Factors: Low Clouds 173 -- Bjorn Stevens and Jean-Louis Brenguier -- 9 Deep Convective Clouds 197 -- Wojciech W Grabowski and Jon C. Petch -- 10 Large-scale Controls on Cloudiness 217 -- Christopher S. Bretherton and Dennis L. Hartmann -- 11 Cloud-controlling Factors of Cirrus 235 -- Bernd Kdircher and Peter Spichtinger -- 12 Cloud-controlling Factors 269 -- A. Pier Siebesma, Rapporteur -- Jean-Louis Brenguier Christopher S. Bretherton, -- Wojciech W Grabowski, Jost Heintzenberg, Bernd Kdrcher -- Katrin Lehmann, Jon C. Petch, Peter Spichtinger, Bjorn Stevens, -- and Frank Stratmann -- 13 Cloud Particle Precursors 291 -- Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Markus D. Petters, and Patrick Y Chuang -- 14 Cloud-Aerosol Interactions from the Micro to the Cloud Scale 319 -- Graham Feingold and Holger Siebert -- 15 Weather and Climate Engineering 339 -- William R. Cotton -- 16 Air Pollution and Precipitation 369 -- Greg Ayers and Zev Levin -- 17 What Do We Know about Large-scale Changes of 401 -- Aerosols, Clouds, and the Radiation Budget? -- Teruyuki Nakajima and Michael Schulz -- 18 The Extent and Nature of Anthropogenic 433 -- Perturbations of Clouds -- Patrick Y Chuang and Graham Feingold, Rapporteurs -- Greg Ayers, Robert J. Charlson, William R. Cotton, -- Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Zev Levin, Teruyuki Nakajima, -- Daniel Rosenfeld, Michael Schulz, and Holger Siebert -- 19 Global Indirect Radiative Forcing Caused by 451 -- Aerosols: IPCC (2007) and Beyond -- Jim Haywood, Leo Donner, Andy Jones, -- and Jean-Christophe Golaz -- 20 Simulating Global Clouds: Past, Present, and Future 469 -- William D. Collins and Masaki Satoh -- 21 Observational Strategies from the Micro- to Mesoscale 487 -- Jean-Louis Brenguier and Robert Wood -- 22 Observational Strategies at Meso- and Large Scales to 511 -- Reduce Critical Uncertainties in Future Cloud Changes -- Anthony Illingworth and Sandrine Bony -- 23 Aerosols and Clouds in Chemical Transport 531 -- Models and Climate Models -- Ulrike Lohmann and Stephen E. Schwartz -- 24 Current Understanding and Quantification of 557 -- Clouds in the Changing Climate System and -- Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties -- Johannes Quaas, Rapporteur -- Sandrine Bony, William D. Collins, Leo Donner -- Anthony Illingworth, Andy Jones, Ulrike Lohmann, -- AMasaki Satoh, Stephen E. Schwartz, Wei-Kuo Tao, -- and Robert Wood |
| Summary |
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 |
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General |
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ENVIRONMENT/General |
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Forum held March 2-7, 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Cloud physics -- Congresses
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Clouds -- Dynamics -- Congresses
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Climatic changes -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
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Climatic changes
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Cloud physics
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Clouds -- Dynamics
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Heintzenberg, J. (Jost)
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Charlson, Robert J.
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| ISBN |
9780262255448 |
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0262255448 |
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