Cloud physics has achieved such a voluminous literature over the past few decades that a significant quantitative study of the entire field would prove unwieldy. This book concentrates on one major aspect: cloud microphysics, which involves the processes that lead to the formation of individual cloud and precipitation particles. Common practice has shown that one may distinguish among the following addi- tional major aspects: cloud dynamics, which is concerned with the physics respon- sible for the macroscopic features of clouds; cloud electricity, which deals with the electrical structure of...