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Motions of Ice Hydrometeors in the Atmosphere: Numerical Studies and Implications

Book information

Publisher
Springer Singapore
Year
2021
ISBN
981334430X, 9789813344303
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14776072 bytes)
Series
Atmosphere, Earth, Ocean & Space
Pages
176\183
Time added
2020-11-26 02:44:41

Description

This book summarizes unique research findings on the hydrodynamic behavior of ice particles (ice crystals, snow, graupel and hailstones) in the atmosphere. The fall behavior of ice hydrometeors determines how and how fast a mixed-phase cloud can grow or dissipate. The book discusses how the authors used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods and numerical simulations to determine these behaviors, and presents these computations along with numerous detailed tables and illustrations of turbulent flow fields. It also examines the implications of the results for the general atmospheric sciences as well as for climate science (since the cloud problem is the source of the greatest uncertainty in model-based climate predictions). As such it allows readers to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of how particles fall in clouds and offers insights into cloud physics and dynamics and their impact on the climate..

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