Time: TuTh 2 -
3:30 in WBB 820
Instructor: Tim
Garrett
WBB 819
801 581-5768
How is rain produced? What are characteristic sizes of ice crystals in clouds? What governs how clouds evolve? A great deal remains very uncertain in cloud physics. Perhaps in contrast to such atmospheric fields as dynamics and radiation, there is a surprisingly small ``core'' of generally accepted principles. With this in mind, this course will have three principle components. First, I will ``chalk and talk'' a survey through some fundamentals of cloud physics. Second, you will work through some of these fundamentals in assignments. Since this is a non-core graduate course, you will provide a portion of the teaching yourselves through regular review in class of a number of important papers. The idea here is to explore both old and new thinking in the field.
Facchini
et al. 1999, Nature
Koop
et al.,
2000, Nature
Baker and
Baker, 2004, Geophys. Res. Lett.
Hobbs and
Rangno, JAS, 1985
Rosenfeld et al., PNAS, 2001
Choi et al., Phys.
Rev. Lett, 2005
Korolev
and Mazin, 2003, JAS
Khain
et al., 2007,
Atmos. Res.
Bretherton, 1997, In The Physics and Parameterization of Moist
Atmospheric Convection, R. K. Smith, ed., Kluwer Publishers,
211-230