Cloud Dynamics: Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Third General Assembly of IAMAP, Hamburg, West Germany, 1728 August, 1981 [Paperback]

Shallow Convective Systems  Observations and Models.- An Introduction to Shallow Convective Systems.- An observational study of convective cloud streets.- Radiative influence on small scale convection within stratus cloud layers.- Infrared remote sensing of the vertical and horizontal distribution of clouds.- Long-lasting precipitation cells in stratiform clouds.- Lake-effect snow storms on Lake Michigan, USA (invited paper).- A similarity theory for unsaturated downdrafts within clouds.- Convective overturning and the saturation point.- Attempt to directly simulate cloud-radiation interaction in the case of small cumuli.- On the preferred mode of cumulus convection in a conditionally unstable atmosphere.- Toward a unified theory of atmospheric convective instability.- Cloud bands in the atmosphere.- Deep Convective Systems  Observations and Models.- An Introduction to Deep Convective Systems.- The variable nature of thunderstorm updrafts and precipitation.- Characteristics of vertical wind profiles near the most severe thunderstorms of South-Western France.- The development of the cumulonimbus clouds which move along a valley.- Comparison of radar observations of a devastating hailstorm and a cloudburst at Jan Smuts Airport.- Use of the radar differential reflectivity radar technique for observing convective systems.- Complex radar methods of hail cloud structure, evolution dynamics and microstructure.- A diagnostic study of the tornadic storm based on dual-Doppler wind measurements.- An experimental investigation of the factors governing the dynamic structure and intensity of atmospheric vortices.- Detection of convective storms based on penetrative cloud top from satellite infrared and raw- insonde data and gravity waves from Doppler sounder.- Precipitation inconvective storms: an observational and numerical study.- Observed and numerically simulated structure of a mature supercell thunderstorm (invited paper).- Turbulence parameterization in a deep convection ls¼