Product Description
This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of the microphysical processes which lead to cloud and precipitation formation. Emphasis is placed on presenting a quantitative description of the various mechanisms (e.g. nucleation, diffusional growth and evaporation, collisional growth and breakup) which lead to the formation of cloud and precipitation particles, individually and in populations.
The second edition of this highly acclaimed book has been extensively updated to incorporate new research reported in a large number of articles and dozens of books and conference proceedings published since the first edition. Some highlights include: a new chapter on cloud chemistry; improved statistical mechanics models for homogeneous and heterogeneous ice nucleation; better data on aerosol size distribution and on fundamental properties of water; new data and models for asymmetric flow past particles of various shapes and for drop oscillation and breakup; extended treatment of drop coalescence and particle collision cross-sections, including some new effects of turbulence; more complete simulations of stochastic growth; expanded treatment of growth modes of graupel, rime and hailstones; new field data and modelling concerning effects of electric fields and charges on cloud microphysics.
Audience:The book is directed primarily at undergraduate and graduate level students of cloud physics, as well as at specialists in the field of aerosol physics, cloud dynamics, climate modelling, air chemistry, air pollution, and weather modification.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)

The most complete reference on cloud physics

The book of professor Pruppacher impress by the broad treatment of the subject. In spite of the fact that the author says in the foreword that it is not a complete approach to cloud physics, it reaches close to this goal. This is a fundamental book for all who wish to learn in depth cloud mycrophysics.
August 27, 2006

This is the bible of cloud physics

Following the first edition in 1978, this book is an updated and expanded (especially in cloud chemistry) version of this well-known textbook in cloud physics. It covers nearly every topics of cloud physics and chemistry (and aerosol physics as well)in great detail with extensive references (more than 60 pages!). Indispensable for anyone in cloud physics, atmospheric aerosol, and possibly climate scientists.
June 01, 1999

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