Atmospheric Physics: Background – Methods – Trends

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Atmosphere: Vast, Shallow, and Full of Subtleties....Pages 3-16
Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere....Pages 17-35
Aerosols in the Atmosphere....Pages 37-53
Earth’s Radiation Budget: The Driver for Weather and Climate....Pages 55-67
Light Scattering on Molecules in the Atmosphere....Pages 69-83
Greenhouse Effect, Radiative Forcing and Climate Sensitivity....Pages 85-100
Thunderstorms: Thermodynamics and Organization....Pages 101-114
Thunderstorms: Trace Species Generators....Pages 115-133
Ice Supersaturation....Pages 135-150
Atmospheric Ice Formation Processes....Pages 151-167
Detection and Analysis of Water Vapor Transport....Pages 169-184
Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants....Pages 185-201
Atmospheric Acoustics....Pages 203-217
Aircraft Wake Vortices: From Fundamental Research to Operational Application....Pages 219-237
Contrails: Visible Aviation Induced Climate Impact....Pages 239-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Measurements of Nitrogen Oxides and Related Trace Gases....Pages 261-276
Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometric Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases....Pages 277-296
In Situ Measurement Methods for Atmospheric Aerosol Particles and Cloud Elements....Pages 297-315
Dropsondes and Radiosondes for Atmospheric Measurements....Pages 317-329
Lightning Detection....Pages 331-346
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Cloud and Precipitation Radar....Pages 347-361
Weather Nowcasting and Short Term Forecasting....Pages 363-380
Lagrangian Modeling of Transport and Dispersion of Air Constituents....Pages 381-399
Radiative Transfer: Methods and Applications....Pages 401-415
Ice Cloud Properties From Space....Pages 417-432
Contrail Detection in Satellite Images....Pages 433-447
Lidar for Aerosol Remote Sensing....Pages 449-464
Measuring Water Vapor with Differential Absorption Lidar....Pages 465-476
Aerosol Classification by Advanced Backscatter Lidar Techniques....Pages 477-486
Wind Lidar for Atmospheric Research....Pages 487-507
Tunable Light Sources for Lidar Applications....Pages 509-527
Advanced Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Atmospheric Flows....Pages 529-542
Cloud Resolving Modeling of Contrail Evolution....Pages 543-559
Global Atmospheric Aerosol Modeling....Pages 561-576
Earth System Modeling....Pages 577-590
Evaluating Climate-Chemistry Response and Mitigation Options with AirClim....Pages 591-606
Front Matter....Pages 607-607
The Transition From FALCON to HALO Era Airborne Atmospheric Research....Pages 609-624
The Eyjafjalla Eruption in 2010 and the Volcanic Impact on Aviation....Pages 625-644
Mitigating the Impact of Adverse Weather on Aviation....Pages 645-659
Probabilistic Weather Forecasting....Pages 661-673
Front Matter....Pages 607-607
Aircraft Emissions at Cruise and Plume Processes....Pages 675-692
Cirrus Clouds and Their Representation in Models....Pages 693-710
Climate Impact of Transport....Pages 711-725
Climate Optimized Air Transport....Pages 727-746
Recent and Future Evolution of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer....Pages 747-761
How Good are Chemistry-Climate Models?....Pages 763-779
Methane Modeling: From Process Modeling to Global Climate Models....Pages 781-797
Towards a Greenhouse Gas Lidar in Space....Pages 799-813
The Spaceborne Wind Lidar Mission ADM-Aeolus....Pages 815-827
Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction: Towards the EarthCARE Satellite Mission....Pages 829-842
Roots, Foundation, and Achievements of the “Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre”....Pages 843-860
Back Matter....Pages 861-877