This book examines surface rainfall processes through cloud-resolving modeling and quantitative analysis of surface rainfall budget, and summarizes modeling and analysis results over seven years. Includes a set of diagnostic precipitation equations.

Unique quantitative analysis of rainfall processes for operational forecasters to improve their rainfall predictions Step-by-step tutorials of rainfall analysis for graduate students A complete set of two-dimensional sensitivity experiments for the reference of development of three-dimensional model experiments

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Xiaofan Li is a physical scientist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA and a master's degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.

Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, 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
-Precipitation Modeling with Cloud-Resolving Model.-
-Precipitation Equations and Process Analysis.-
-Tropical Precipitation Processes.-
-Effects of Sea Surface Temperature.-
-Effects of vertical wind shear.-
-Microphysical and Radiative Effects of Ice clouds.-
-Cloud Radiative Effects.-
-Precipitation Efficiency.-
-Sensitivity of Precipitation Modeling to Uncertainty of Initial Conditions.