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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We see them in our everyday lives. They make skies and sunsets even more beautiful,
    inspiring painters all over the world. But what are clouds? What are the physical
    processes occurring within a cloud? Do they all look alike, or are there different
    types of clouds? Why? Beyond our small human scale, how are clouds distributed
    at large, planetary scales? How do they couple and interact with the large-scale
    circulation of the atmosphere? What do the physics of cloud formation tell us
    about the hydrological cycle, including mean and extreme precipitation, in our
    current climate and in a warming world? What role do they play in the global energetics
    of the planet, for instance by reflecting the incoming shortwave radiation from
    the Sun, and by reducing the outgoing longwave radiation to space, because of
    their high altitudes and thus cold temperatures? These are the questions that
    will be addressed in these five lectures.
alternative_title:
- Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
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author:
- first_name: Caroline J
  full_name: Muller, Caroline J
  id: f978ccb0-3f7f-11eb-b193-b0e2bd13182b
  last_name: Muller
  orcid: 0000-0001-5836-5350
citation:
  ama: 'Muller CJ. Clouds in current and in a warming climate. In: Bouchet F, Schneider
    T, Venaille A, Salomon C, eds. <i>Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate
    Dynamics</i>. Vol 109. Oxford University Press; 2020. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002">10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002</a>'
  apa: Muller, C. J. (2020). Clouds in current and in a warming climate. In F. Bouchet,
    T. Schneider, A. Venaille, &#38; C. Salomon (Eds.), <i>Fundamental Aspects of
    Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics</i> (Vol. 109). Oxford University Press. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002">https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002</a>
  chicago: Muller, Caroline J. “Clouds in Current and in a Warming Climate.” In <i>Fundamental
    Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics</i>, edited by Freddy Bouchet,
    Tapio Schneider, Antoine Venaille, and Christophe Salomon, Vol. 109. Oxford University
    Press, 2020. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002">https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002</a>.
  ieee: C. J. Muller, “Clouds in current and in a warming climate,” in <i>Fundamental
    Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics</i>, vol. 109, F. Bouchet, T. Schneider,
    A. Venaille, and C. Salomon, Eds. Oxford University Press, 2020.
  ista: 'Muller CJ. 2020.Clouds in current and in a warming climate. In: Fundamental
    Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics. Lecture Notes of the Les Houches
    Summer School, vol. 109.'
  mla: Muller, Caroline J. “Clouds in Current and in a Warming Climate.” <i>Fundamental
    Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics</i>, edited by Freddy Bouchet et
    al., vol. 109, Oxford University Press, 2020, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002">10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002</a>.
  short: C.J. Muller, in:, F. Bouchet, T. Schneider, A. Venaille, C. Salomon (Eds.),
    Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics, Oxford University
    Press, 2020.
date_created: 2021-02-15T14:15:38Z
date_published: 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-04-06T10:31:22Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198855217.003.0002
editor:
- first_name: Freddy
  full_name: Bouchet, Freddy
  last_name: Bouchet
- first_name: Tapio
  full_name: Schneider, Tapio
  last_name: Schneider
- first_name: Antoine
  full_name: Venaille, Antoine
  last_name: Venaille
- first_name: Christophe
  full_name: Salomon, Christophe
  last_name: Salomon
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intvolume: '       109'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '03'
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publication: Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-0-1988-5521-7
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Clouds in current and in a warming climate
type: book_chapter
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volume: 109
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