ASL754
| ASL754 | |
|---|---|
| Cloud physics | |
| Credits | 3 |
| Structure | 3-0-0 |
| Pre-requisites | |
| Overlaps | |
ASL754 : Cloud physics
[edit]Cloud types; cloud formation; cloud dynamics: entrainment, detrainment and downdraft initiation in cumuli, large scale convergence, mesoscale convective system; Kohler theory; CCN and IN; homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation; fundamental equations governing cloud processes; warm cloud microphysics: diffusional growth, droplet population, collision-coalescence, radiative cooling; ice cloud microphysics: nucleation, ice multiplication, growth of ice particles by accretion and ice particle melting; hydrometeor; impact of microphysical processes on dynamics; cloud chemistry; aerosol-cloud interaction: direct, indirect and semi-direct effects; clouds in numerical models: parameterization of cloud microphysics; cloud-climate interaction.