Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Microphysics of Clouds

1. Introduction; 2. Clouds and their properties; 3. Thermodynamic relations; 4. Properties of water and aqueous solutions; 5. Diffusion and coagulation growth of drops and crystals; 6. Wet aerosol process; 7. Activation of cloud condensation nuclei into cloud drops; 8. Homogeneous nucleation; 9. Heterogeneous nucleation of drops and ice crystals; 10. Parameterizations of heterogeneous ice nucleation; 11. Deliquescence and efflorescence in atmospheric aerosols; 12. Terminal velocities of drops and crystals; 13. Broad size spectra in clouds and theory of stochastic condensation; 14. Analytical solutions to the stochastic kinetic equation.

Vitaly Khvorostyanov is Professor of Physics of the Atmosphere and Hydrosphere, Central Aerological Observatory (CAO), Russian Federation. His research interests are in cloud physics, cloud numerical modeling, atmospheric radiation, cloud-aerosol and cloud-radiation interactions with applications for climate studies and weather modification. He has served as Head of the Laboratory of Numerical Modeling of Cloud Seeding at CAO, Coordinator of the Cloud Modeling Programs on Weather Modification by Cloud Seeding in the USSR and Russia, Member of the International GEWEX Radiation Panel of the World Climate Research Program and Member of the International Working Group on Cloud-Aerosol Interactions. Dr Khvorostyanov has worked as a visiting scientist and Research Professor in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Israel. He has co-authored nearly 200 journal articles and four books: Numerical Simulation of Clouds (1984), Clouds and Climate (1986), Energy-Active Zones: Conceptual Foundations (1989) and Cirrus (2002). Dr Khvorostyanov is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.