Precipitation Modeling and Quantitative Analysis

✍ Scribed by Xiaofan Li, Shouting Gao (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Precipitation....Pages 1-25
Precipitation Equations and Process Analysis....Pages 27-61
Tropical Precipitation Processes....Pages 63-109
Effects of Sea Surface Temperature....Pages 111-124
Effects of Vertical Wind Shear....Pages 125-136
Microphysical and Radiative Effects of Ice Clouds....Pages 137-173
Cloud Radiative Effects....Pages 175-207
Precipitation Efficiency....Pages 209-218
Sensitivity of Precipitation Modeling to Uncertainty of Initial Conditions....Pages 219-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-240

✦ Subjects

Meteorology/Climatology; Natural Hazards; Simulation and Modeling