Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics Principles and Parameterizations

Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics Principles and Parameterizations by Jerry M. Straka, published by Cambridge University Press on June 11, 2009, is an illustrated edition comprising 392 pages. This book focuses specifically on bin and bulk parameterizations for predicting cloud and precipitation across various scales, including cloud, mesoscale, synoptic scale, and global climate scale. It provides a comprehensive background on the fundamental principles of parameterization physics, detailing the processes involved in the formation of clouds, ice particles, liquid water, snow aggregates, graupel, and hail.

Readers will find full derivations of the parameterizations, enabling them to construct parameterization packages with varying complexity. The book also outlines architectures for a range of dynamical models, where parameterizations serve as essential tools for exploring large non-linear numerical systems. Aimed at researchers and advanced students in cloud and precipitation microphysics, this work serves as a valuable reference for atmospheric scientists engaged in numerical weather prediction models.