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