Human Impacts on Weather and Climate – Review
There are very few individual cloud physics text books on the market. More often than not only a chapter is entirely devoted to clouds in a general special sciences text book, which grossly neglects the difficulty of the subject. Fortunately this one does give a excellent introduction for students/researchers in special sciences/physics/engineering who need to learn more about clouds. Basic concepts are presented in a consice but often mathy way. Sometimes the practical equations can throw the readers off a mostly bit. Unfortunately these catches are almost inevitable in cloud physics. A remarkable value of this book is its size. A well-designed undergraduate course can certainly go through most of the topics. At the same time there is enough comprehensive information that the interested instructors and students can develop term projects or minimal models currently using the book as a reference. In all I warmly recommend this text as an introduction to cloud physics. Advanced researchers in the field, however, will need a more general reference, such as Pruppacher and Klett.

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