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Cloud dynamics / Robert A. Houze, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houze, Robert A., Jr.
- Series:
- International geophysics series ; v. 53.
- International geophysics ; v. 53
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clouds--Dynamics.
- Clouds.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (605 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Academic Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Clouds play a critical role in the Earth's climate, general atmospheric circulation, and global water balance. Clouds are essential elements in mesoscale meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, atmosphericradiation, and weather forecasting, and thus must be understood by any student or researcher in the atmospheric sciences.Cloud Dynamics provides a skillful and comprehensive examination of the nature of clouds--what they look like and why, how scientists observe them, and the basic dynamics and physics that underlie them. The book describes the mechanics governing each t
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Fundamentals
- pt. 2. Phenomena.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-556) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-12-356880-3
- 1-282-16715-4
- 9786612167157
- 0-08-050210-5
- OCLC:
- 437112444
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