Clouds and Climate : Climate Science's Greatest Challenge (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. Cloudy perspectives Louise Nuijens and Christian Jakob; Part I. Cloud Fundamentals: 2. Clouds as fluids Bjorn Stevens and A. Pier Siebesma; 3. Clouds as particles Hanna Pawlowska and Ben Shipway; 4. Clouds as light Robert Pincus and Helene Chepfer; Part II. Clouds and Modelling: 5. Conceptualising clouds Stephan de Roode and Roel Neggers; 6. Parameterising clouds A. Pier Siebesma and Axel Seifert; 7. Evaluating clouds Christian Jakob and Jean-Louis Dufresne; Part III. Clouds and Circulation: 8. Tropical and subtropical cloud systems Gilles Bellon and Sandrine Bony; 9. Midlatitude cloud systems George Tselioudis and Kevin Grise; 10. Arctic cloud systems Gunilla Svensson and Thorsten Mauritsen; Part IV. Cloud Perturbations: 11. Clouds and aerosols Johannes Quaas and Ulrike Lohmann; 12. Clouds and land Cathy Hohenegger and Christoph Schar; 13. Clouds and warming Sandrine Bony and Bjorn Stevens; References; Index.