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This book examines cloud-resolving modeling of tropical convective processes and summarizes modeling results during TOGA COARE since 1992. The book introduces the framework of cloud-resolving model, methodologies for analysis of modeling outputs, and validation of simulations with observations. The book details important scientific findings in the aspects of surface rainfall processes, precipitation efficiency, dynamic and thermodynamic processes associated with tropical convection, diurnal variations, radiative and cloud microphysical processes associated with development of cloud clusters, air-sea coupling on convective scales, climate equilibrium states, and remote sensing applications. The book will be beneficial to graduate students and researchers in cloud, mesoscale and global modeling. Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has a doctorate and a master's degree in meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China. Xiaofan Li is a physical scientist at the Center for Satellite Applications, National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Camp Springs, Maryland. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu and a master's degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. .

Convection (Meteorology) --- Clouds --- Mathematical models. --- Atmospheric circulation --- Heat --- Meteorology --- Convection --- Geographical information systems. --- Geography. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Geophysics and Environmental Physics. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Classical and Continuum Physics. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Geophysics. --- Earth sciences. --- Continuum physics. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Classical field theory --- Continuum physics --- Physics --- Continuum mechanics --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Atmospheric sciences --- Atmosphere

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The book examines surface rainfall processes through cloud-resolving modeling and quantitative analysis of surface rainfall budget and summarizes modeling and analysis results in recent seven years. The book shows validation of precipitation modeling against observations and derives a set of diagnostic precipitation equations. The book provides detailed discussions of the applications of precipitation equations to the examination of effects of sea surface temperature, vertical wind shear, radiation, and ice clouds on torrential rainfall processes in the tropics and mid-latitudes, and to the studies of sensitivity of precipitation modeling to uncertainty of the initial conditions and to the estimate of precipitation efficiency. The book can be used as a text book for graduate students and will be beneficial to researchers and forecasters for precipitation process studies and operational forecasts. Xiaofan Li is a physical scientist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA and a master’s degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has a doctorate and a master’s degree in meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China.

Precipitation (Meteorology) -- Mathematical models. --- Precipitation (Meteorology) --- Hydrologic cycle --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Mathematical models --- Quantitative research. --- Measurement. --- Data analysis (Quantitative research) --- Exploratory data analysis (Quantitative research) --- Quantitative analysis (Research) --- Quantitative methods (Research) --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Computer simulation. --- Earth Sciences. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Research --- Water --- Weather --- Cloud physics --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Atmospheric sciences --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere

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Geophysics --- Meteorology. Climatology --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- vormgeving --- simulaties --- klimatologie --- geologie --- meteorologie --- geofysica --- natuurrampen

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The encounter between different minds and perspectives across time and space has always haunted the literary and philosophical imagination. Just such an encounter is staged and played out in this comparative study, which connects the twentieth-century Francophone writers Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) and Henri Michaux (1899-1984) with the ancient Chinese text Zhuangzi (c. 4th-3rd century BCE). These disparate texts are bridged by questions that draw them into close dialogue: how can Artaud and Michaux, who read about and admired ancient Chinese literature and culture, be rethought through certain philosophical concerns that the Zhuangzi raises? If the points of conceptual intersection focus on rationality, cosmology and ethics, what can they tell us about these important issues? By imagining, constructing and developing this thought-encounter, Li re-envisages Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi through the kaleidoscope of comparative interpretation, juxtaposing and recombining ideas and contexts to form new patterns and meanings.

Philosophy, Comparative --- Artaud, Antonin, --- Michaux, Henri, --- Zhuangzi. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book examines cloud-resolving modeling of tropical convective processes and summarizes modeling results during TOGA COARE since 1992. The book introduces the framework of cloud-resolving model, methodologies for analysis of modeling outputs, and validation of simulations with observations. The book details important scientific findings in the aspects of surface rainfall processes, precipitation efficiency, dynamic and thermodynamic processes associated with tropical convection, diurnal variations, radiative and cloud microphysical processes associated with development of cloud clusters, air-sea coupling on convective scales, climate equilibrium states, and remote sensing applications. The book will be beneficial to graduate students and researchers in cloud, mesoscale and global modeling. Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has a doctorate and a master's degree in meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China. Xiaofan Li is a physical scientist at the Center for Satellite Applications, National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Camp Springs, Maryland. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu and a master's degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.

Mathematics --- Classical mechanics. Field theory --- Thermodynamics --- Meteorology. Climatology --- Geology. Earth sciences --- thermodynamica --- klimatologie --- wiskunde --- geografie --- geologie --- meteorologie --- mechanica