Clouds and Precipitation - Cloud Formation and Precipitation Mechanisms

This lecture examines how visible light and radar detect clouds and precipitation, how clouds form, and how raindrops develop through collision-coalescence and ice-phase processes. It also introduces cloud seeding, precipitation climatology, and evaporation.

Syllabus

- Chapter 1. Interactions between Visible Light and the Atmosphere
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- Chapter 2. Using Radar to Detect Precipitation
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- Chapter 3. Cloud Formation Experiment
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- Chapter 4. Collision Coalescence Mechanism of Raindrop Formation
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- Chapter 5. Ice Phase Mechanism of Raindrop Formation
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- Chapter 6. Mechanism of Precipitation Formation Based on Cloud Characteristics
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- Chapter 7. Cloud Seeding
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- Chapter 8. Precipitation Climatology
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- Chapter 9. Evaporation
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