A. Tompkins, ICTP
Lesson number 10 (A.Tompkins)
Cloud Physics
In this lesson the teacher explains the cloud processes: (1) the change of phase from water vapour to liquid droplets or ice crystals; (2) transformation of small cloud droplets to larger rain drops. Then the teacher describes the formation of clouds, emphasizing that the formation of clouds is a small microscale process depending on small scale fluctuations in velocities and humidity as well as the aerosol density.
Textbooks:
A Short Course in Cloud Physics
R. R. Rogers, M. K. Yau
Pergamon Press, 1976 - 227 pagine