Includes five new chapters on convective-stratiform rainfall, budget-derived rainfall separation schemes, effects of doubled carbon dioxide on rainfall, modeling of Wegener- Bergeron-Findeisen process and precipitation predictability

Contains more than a hundred detailed illustrations about cloud-resolving modeling of convective processes

Comprehensive information on many research aspects related to convective development

Updated and revised second edition Includes five new chapters on convective-stratiform rainfall, budget-derived rainfall separation schemes, effects of doubled carbon dioxide on rainfall, modeling of Wegener- Bergeron-Findeisen process and precipitation predictability Contains more than a hundred detailed illustrations about cloud-resolving modeling of convective processes Comprehensive information on many research aspects related to convective development

Autorentext

Xiaofan Li is Qiushi Distinguished professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA and a master's degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has a doctorate and a master's degree in meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China.

Inhalt
Convective-Stratiform Rainfall.- Budget-Derived Rainfall Separation Schemes.- Effects of Doubled Carbon Dioxide on Rainfall.- Modeling of Wegener- Bergeron-Findeisen Process.- Precipitation Predictability.- Phase Relation between Precipitation and Its Sources.- Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on Diurnal Variation of Rainfall.- Precipitation Efficiency and its relationship to Physical Factors.- Dependence of Precipitation Efficiency on Rainfall Type.