The contents of this volume are based largely on a symposium on cloud dynamics held in Hamburg, Germany, as a part of the Third General Assembly of the International Association of Mete orology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP), 17-28 August-1981. Plans for this symposium were initiated by the Cloud Dynamics Group, appointed through the International Commission for Dynam ic Meteorology (ICDM), IAMAP. Members of this group are Bruce Morton - Chairman, Australia; Tomio Asai - Secretary, Japan; E. M. Agee, USA; V. Andreyev, Bulgaria; K. Fradrich, FRG; M. W. Moncrieff, UK; R. S. Pastushkov, USSR; J. P. Chao, PR China; Bh. V. Ramanamurti, India; W. Roach, UK; J. Simpson, USA; J. T. Steiner, New Zealand; M. Yanai, USA. E. M. Agee served as con vener of the symposium in Hamburg. Dynamic meteorology has grown rapidly and covered a great variety of fields since the foundation of ICDM, making it increas ingly difficult for the Commission to manage all activities. In order to improve this situation, some ad-hoc Working Groups within ICDM were organized at the 1977 IAMAP meeting in Seattle. Each of these working groups, such as the one in Cloud Dynamics, deals with a particular sub-field of dynamic meteorology.

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Proceedings of a Symposium held at Third General Assembly of IAMAP, Hamburg, West Germany, 17-28 August, 1981

Inhalt
Shallow Convective Systems Observations and Models.- An Introduction to Shallow Convective Systems.- An observational study of convective cloud streets.- Radiative influence on small scale convection within stratus cloud layers.- Infrared remote sensing of the vertical and horizontal distribution of clouds.- Long-lasting precipitation cells in stratiform clouds.- Lake-effect snow storms on Lake Michigan, USA (invited paper).- A similarity theory for unsaturated downdrafts within clouds.- Convective overturning and the saturation point.- Attempt to directly simulate cloud-radiation interaction in the case of small cumuli.- On the preferred mode of cumulus convection in a conditionally unstable atmosphere.- Toward a unified theory of atmospheric convective instability.- Cloud bands in the atmosphere.- Deep Convective Systems Observations and Models.- An Introduction to Deep Convective Systems.- The variable nature of thunderstorm updrafts and precipitation.- Characteristics of vertical wind profiles near the most severe thunderstorms of South-Western France.- The development of the cumulonimbus clouds which move along a valley.- Comparison of radar observations of a devastating hailstorm and a cloudburst at Jan Smuts Airport.- Use of the radar differential reflectivity radar technique for observing convective systems.- Complex radar methods of hail cloud structure, evolution dynamics and microstructure.- A diagnostic study of the tornadic storm based on dual-Doppler wind measurements.- An experimental investigation of the factors governing the dynamic structure and intensity of atmospheric vortices.- Detection of convective storms based on penetrative cloud top from satellite infrared and raw- insonde data and gravity waves from Doppler sounder.- Precipitation inconvective storms: an observational and numerical study.- Observed and numerically simulated structure of a mature supercell thunderstorm (invited paper).- Turbulence parameterization in a deep convection model.- List of Participants/Contributors.