Accession Number:

AD0671350

Title:

STUDIES ON THE MICROPHYSICAL MECHANISM OF PRECIPITATION FROM WARM CLOUDS,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

EMMANUEL COLL BOSTON MASS ORIENTAL SCIENCE LIBRARY

Personal Author(s):

• Zhou,Xiu-ji

Report Date:

1968-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

162.0

Abstract:

The characteristics of the growth of cloud drops as a stochastic process is described in the first chapter which is followed by a discussion of the theories of cloud-drop growth. The influence of fluctuations in fields of humidity, cloud-drop concentration, turbulence, and vertical motions and the effect of electric charge on growth by coalescence are considered in order to formulate a general statistical theory to account for precipitation from warm clouds. Author

Descriptors:

• (*ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION
• *CLOUDS)
• ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
• HUMIDITY
• CONDENSATION
• MICROMETEOROLOGY
• TURBULENCE
• MOTION
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
• DROPS
• CHINA

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE