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1 online resource (xxxix, 877 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Research topics in aerospace |
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Research topics in aerospace.
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Part 1. Background -- The Atmosphere: Vast, Shallow, and Full of Subtleties / Andreas Dörnbrack -- Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere / Hans Schlager, Volker Grewe and Anke Roiger -- Aerosols in the Atmosphere / Andreas Petzold and Bernd Kärcher -- Earth's Radiation Budget: The Driver for Weather and Climate / Ralf Meerkötter and Margarita Vázquez-Navarro -- Light Scattering on Molecules in the Atmosphere / Benjamin Witschas -- Greenhouse Effect, Radiative Forcing and Climate Sensitivity / Michael Ponater, Simone Dietmüller and Robert Sausen -- Thunderstorms: Thermodynamics and Organization / Tobias Zinner and Pieter Groenemeijer -- Thunderstorms: Trace Species Generators / Heidi Huntrieser, Hartmut Höller and Volker Grewe -- Ice Supersaturation / Klaus Gierens, Peter Spichtinger and Ulrich Schumann -- Atmospheric Ice Formation Processes / Bernd Kärcher -- Detection and Analysis of Water Vapor Transport / Christoph Kiemle, Andreas Schäfler and Christiane Voigt -- Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants / Anke Roiger, Heidi Huntrieser and Hans Schlager -- Atmospheric Acoustics / Dietrich Heimann, Arthur Schady and Joseph Feng -- Aircraft Wake Vortices: From Fundamental Research to Operational Application / Frank Holzäpfel and Thomas Gerz -- Contrails: Visible Aviation Induced Climate Impact / Ulrich Schumann, Kaspar Graf, Hermann Mannstein and Bernhard Mayer -- Part 2. Methods -- Measurements of Nitrogen Oxides and Related Trace Gases / Helmut Ziereis, Paul Stock and Hans Schlager -- Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometric Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases / Heinfried Aufmhoff, Dominik Schäuble, Anke Roiger, Frank Arnold and Tina Jurkat, et al. -- In Situ Measurement Methods for Atmospheric Aerosol Particles and Cloud Elements / Andreas Minikin, Andreas Petzold, Bernadett Weinzierl and Jean-François Gayet -- Dropsondes and Radiosondes for Atmospheric Measurements / Reinhold Busen -- Lightning Detection / Hartmut Höller, Hans-Dieter Betz, Ullrich Finke and Kersten Schmidt -- Cloud and Precipitation Radar / Martin Hagen, Hartmut Höller and Kersten Schmidt -- Weather Nowcasting and Short Term Forecasting / Arnold Tafferner and Caroline Forster -- Lagrangian Modeling of Transport and Dispersion of Air Constituents / Robert Baumann and Hans Schlager -- Radiative Transfer: Methods and Applications / Bernhard Mayer, Claudia Emde, Robert Buras and Arve Kylling -- Ice Cloud Properties From Space / Luca Bugliaro, Hermann Mannstein and Stephan Kox |
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Contrail Detection in Satellite Images / Hermann Mannstein, Margarita Vázquez-Navarro, Kaspar Graf, David P. Duda and Ulrich Schumann -- Lidar for Aerosol Remote Sensing / Matthias Wiegner -- Measuring Water Vapor with Differential Absorption Lidar / Martin Wirth -- Aerosol Classification by Advanced Backscatter Lidar Techniques / Silke Gross, Martin Wirth and Michael Esselborn -- Wind Lidar for Atmospheric Research / Oliver Reitebuch -- Tunable Light Sources for Lidar Applications / Andreas Fix -- Advanced Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Atmospheric Flows / Christian Kühnlein, Andreas Dörnbrack and Thomas Gerz -- Cloud Resolving Modeling of Contrail Evolution / Simon Unterstrasser, Ingo Sölch and Klaus Gierens -- Global Atmospheric Aerosol Modeling / Johannes Hendricks, Mattia Righi and Valentina Aquila -- Earth System Modeling / Patrick Jöckel -- Evaluating Climate-Chemistry Response and Mitigation Options with AirClim / Volker Grewe and Katrin Dahlmann -- Part 3. Research trends -- The Transition From FALCON to HALO Era Airborne Atmospheric Research / Monika Krautstrunk and Andreas Giez -- The Eyjafjalla Eruption in 2010 and the Volcanic Impact on Aviation / Bernadett Weinzierl, Thomas Sailer, Daniel Sauer, Andreas Minikin and Oliver Reitebuch, et al. -- Mitigating the Impact of Adverse Weather on Aviation / Thomas Gerz, Caroline Forster and Arnold Tafferner -- Probabilistic Weather Forecasting / George C. Craig -- Aircraft Emissions at Cruise and Plume Processes / Christiane Voigt, Tina Jurkat, Hans Schlager, Dominik Schäuble and Andreas Petzold, et al. -- Cirrus Clouds and Their Representation in Models / Ulrike Burkhardt and Ingo Sölch -- Climate Impact of Transport / Robert Sausen, Klaus Gierens, Veronika Eyring, Johannes Hendricks and Mattia Righi -- Climate Optimized Air Transport / Sigrun Matthes, Ulrich Schumann, Volker Grewe, Christine Frömming and Katrin Dahlmann, et al. -- Recent and Future Evolution of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer / Martin Dameris and Diego Loyola -- How Good are Chemistry-Climate Models? / Veronika Eyring, Pierre Friedlingstein, Heidi Huntrieser, Theodore G. Shepherd and Darryn W. Waugh -- Methane Modeling: From Process Modeling to Global Climate Models / Andrea Stenke, Rudolf Deckert and Klaus-Dirk Gottschaldt -- Towards a Greenhouse Gas Lidar in Space / Gerhard Ehret, Axel Amediek and Mathieu Quatrevalet -- The Spaceborne Wind Lidar Mission ADM-Aeolus / Oliver Reitebuch -- Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction: Towards the EarthCARE Satellite Mission / Bernhard Mayer, Robert Buras, Gerhard Ehret, Martin Hagen and Andreas Petzold, et al. -- Roots, Foundation, and Achievements of the "Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre" / Hans Volkert and Dania Achermann |
| Summary |
Annotation In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the German Aerospace Center, this book presents outstanding results of the Institute. It covers the entire area of atmospheric science, from fluid dynamics to atmosphere acoustics |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Atmospheric physics.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Atmospheric physics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schumann, U.
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| ISBN |
9783642301834 |
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3642301835 |
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