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Introduction to cloud modeling

Academic year: 2021/2022
Semester: winter

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

This lecture series will review basic techniques to simulate cloud processes, such as formation and growth of cloud droplets, formation of rain through collision/coalescence. Lectures will start with simple approaches such as the bulk condensation model, and will gradually introduce more comprehensive methodology, such as the superdroplet method. Lectures will also involve demonstration and practical exercises with a simple cloud-scale model based on nonoscillatory-forward-in-time differencing for fluid flows.

 

Bibliography

  • Rogers and Yau, A Short Course in Cloud Physics.
  • Pruppacher and Klett, Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation.
  • Manton, M. J. , The physics of clouds in the atmosphere, Rep. Prog. Phys. 46: 1393 (1983).
  • Grabowski, W. W. and Smolarkiewicz, P. K., Monotone finite-difference approximations to the advection-condensation problem, Mon. Wea. Rev. 118: 2082-2097 (1990).
  • Shima, S. et al., The super-droplet method for the numerical simulation of clouds and precipitation: A particle-based and probabilistic microphysics model coupled with a non-hydrostatic model, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 135: 1307–1320 (2009).

        Additional references will be provided during the lectures.

COURSES MATERIALS
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Board notes - Presentation
ICM_board_02_dec_2021.pdf
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Gustavo Abade

Nov. 25, 2021, midnight

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Board notes - Presentation
ICM_board_25_nov_2021.pdf
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Gustavo Abade

Nov. 18, 2021, midnight

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Board notes - Presentation
ICM_board_18_nov_2021.pdf
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Gustavo Abade

Nov. 10, 2021, midnight

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Board notes - Presentation
ICM_board_10_nov_2021.pdf
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Gustavo Abade

Oct. 28, 2021, midnight

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Board notes - Presentation
ICM_board_28_oct_2021.pdf
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Board notes - Presentation
ICM_board_04_nov_2021.pdf
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Lecture documents:
Board notes - Presentation
ICM_board_21_oct_2021.pdf
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