Overview
- Provides an authoritative and comprehensive review of the hydrodynamics of ice particles in the atmosphere
- Includes detailed descriptions of how to use CFD techniques to solve low Reynolds number fluid dynamics problems
- Features detailed illustrations of turbulent flow fields around falling ice hydrometers
Part of the book series: Atmosphere, Earth, Ocean & Space (AEONS)
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This book summarizes unique research findings on the hydrodynamic behavior of ice particles (ice crystals, snow, graupel and hailstones) in the atmosphere. The fall behavior of ice hydrometeors determines how and how fast a mixed-phase cloud can grow or dissipate. The book discusses how the authors used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods and numerical simulations to determine these behaviors, and presents these computations along with numerous detailed tables and illustrations of turbulent flow fields. It also examines the implications of the results for the general atmospheric sciences as well as for climate science (since the cloud problem is the source of the greatest uncertainty in model-based climate predictions). As such it allows readers to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of how particles fall in clouds and offers insights into cloud physics and dynamics and their impact on the climate..
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About the author
Pao K. Wang received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from UCLA in 1978 and 1975 and his B.S. from the National Taiwan University in 1971. He is currently the Director of the Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and of the Taiwan Meteorological Society.He is also a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award (Germany) and Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Fellowship (US).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Motions of Ice Hydrometeors in the Atmosphere
Book Subtitle: Numerical Studies and Implications
Authors: Pao K. Wang
Series Title: Atmosphere, Earth, Ocean & Space
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4431-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4430-3Published: 26 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4433-4Published: 27 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4431-0Published: 25 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-440X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4418
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 176
Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Earth System Sciences, Classical and Continuum Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Water, general