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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We see them in our everyday lives. They make skies and sunsets even more beautiful,
inspiring painters all over the world. But what are clouds? What are the physical
processes occurring within a cloud? Do they all look alike, or are there different
types of clouds? Why? Beyond our small human scale, how are clouds distributed
at large, planetary scales? How do they couple and interact with the large-scale
circulation of the atmosphere? What do the physics of cloud formation tell us
about the hydrological cycle, including mean and extreme precipitation, in our
current climate and in a warming world? What role do they play in the global energetics
of the planet, for instance by reflecting the incoming shortwave radiation from
the Sun, and by reducing the outgoing longwave radiation to space, because of
their high altitudes and thus cold temperatures? These are the questions that
will be addressed in these five lectures.
alternative_title:
- Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
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author:
- first_name: Caroline J
full_name: Muller, Caroline J
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last_name: Muller
orcid: 0000-0001-5836-5350
citation:
ama: 'Muller CJ. Clouds in current and in a warming climate. In: Bouchet F, Schneider
T, Venaille A, Salomon C, eds. Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate
Dynamics. Vol 109. Oxford University Press; 2020. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002'
apa: Muller, C. J. (2020). Clouds in current and in a warming climate. In F. Bouchet,
T. Schneider, A. Venaille, & C. Salomon (Eds.), Fundamental Aspects of
Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics (Vol. 109). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002
chicago: Muller, Caroline J. “Clouds in Current and in a Warming Climate.” In Fundamental
Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics, edited by Freddy Bouchet,
Tapio Schneider, Antoine Venaille, and Christophe Salomon, Vol. 109. Oxford University
Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002.
ieee: C. J. Muller, “Clouds in current and in a warming climate,” in Fundamental
Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics, vol. 109, F. Bouchet, T. Schneider,
A. Venaille, and C. Salomon, Eds. Oxford University Press, 2020.
ista: 'Muller CJ. 2020.Clouds in current and in a warming climate. In: Fundamental
Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics. Lecture Notes of the Les Houches
Summer School, vol. 109.'
mla: Muller, Caroline J. “Clouds in Current and in a Warming Climate.” Fundamental
Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics, edited by Freddy Bouchet et
al., vol. 109, Oxford University Press, 2020, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002.
short: C.J. Muller, in:, F. Bouchet, T. Schneider, A. Venaille, C. Salomon (Eds.),
Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics, Oxford University
Press, 2020.
date_created: 2021-02-15T14:15:38Z
date_published: 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-04-06T10:31:22Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002
editor:
- first_name: Freddy
full_name: Bouchet, Freddy
last_name: Bouchet
- first_name: Tapio
full_name: Schneider, Tapio
last_name: Schneider
- first_name: Antoine
full_name: Venaille, Antoine
last_name: Venaille
- first_name: Christophe
full_name: Salomon, Christophe
last_name: Salomon
extern: '1'
intvolume: ' 109'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '03'
oa_version: None
publication: Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics
publication_identifier:
isbn:
- 978-0-1988-5521-7
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Clouds in current and in a warming climate
type: book_chapter
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volume: 109
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