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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN METEOROLOGY RAIN FORMATION ...

This book aims to promote the understanding of some of the basic mathematical and scientific
issues in the subjects relating to climate dynamics  chaos and quantum mechanics. It is based
on substantial research work in atmospheric science carried out over twenty years. Atmospheric
flows exhibit self similar fractal fluctuations  a signature of long-range correlations on all
space-time scales. Realistic simulation and prediction of atmospheric flows requires the
incorporation of the physics of observed fractal fluctuation characteristics in traditional
meteorological theory. A general systems theory model for fractal space-time fluctuations in
turbulent atmospheric flows is presented and applied to the formation of rain in warm clouds.
This model gives scale-free universal governing equations for cloud growth processes. The model
predicted cloud parameters are in agreement with reported observations  in particular  the
cloud drop-size distribution. Rain formation can occur in warm clouds within 30 minutes as
observed in practice under favourable conditions of moisture supply in the environment.
Traditional cloud physical concepts for rain development requires over an hour for a full-sized
raindrop to form. The book provides background reading for postgraduate students of Meteorology
Atmospheric Sciences Physics  Environmental Sciences  and scientists working in the field of
the topic of the book as well as the multidisciplinary field of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.

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