Thermodynamics of clouds /

For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students...

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Other Authors: Dufour, Louis, Defay, Raymond, 1897-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Academic Press, 1963.
Series:International geophysics series ; v. 6.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Ideas of capillarity
  • Surface model and definitions of adsorbtion, surface ethalpy and entropy
  • Laws of thermodynamics
  • Fundamental formulas in terms of intensive variables
  • Equilibrium states
  • Examination of some approxmiations or hypotheses
  • Study of a droplet suspended in the atmosphere
  • Study on an ice crystal in the atmosphere
  • Temperature of coexistence of a droplet of solution and crystal of ice in the atmosphere
  • Germs of condensation and crystallization
  • Equilibrium populations of embryos, calculation of number of germs as limiting case of problem of equilibrium
  • Nucleation rate.