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"This second edition of Cloud Dynamics follows the structure of the first edition by addressing Earth's clouds holistically. Part I reviews basic principles of nomenclature, dynamics and thermodynamics of air motions, the microphysical processes of waterdrops and ice particles, and the physics of remote sensing of clouds and precipitation. Part II examines in depth the dynamics of each of the major types of clouds in the atmosphere. This two-part structure and the individual chapter topics within each part are the same as in the first edition of the book (although the chapter titles have been slightly altered to modernize them). The material of the first edition of this book is largely unchanged. However, the study of clouds is a vigorous research area.New satellites, more advanced models, and numerous field studies have advanced knowledge of all types of clouds, and I have integrated these new insights into the second edition"--

As models of the Earth/atmosphere system and observations become ever more sophisticated, and concerns about climate change and societal impacts of extreme weather and its forecasting grow, understanding the role of clouds in the atmosphere is increasingly vital. Cloud Dynamics, Second Edition provides the essential information needed to understand how clouds affect climate and weather.

This comprehensive book examines the underlying physics and dynamics of every specific type of cloud that occurs in the Earth's atmosphere, showing how clouds differ dynamically depending on whether they occur over oceans or mountains, or as parts of atmospheric storms, such as thunderstorms, tropical cyclones, or warm and cold fronts. Covering both the microphysical and macrophysical aspects of clouds, the book treats all of the physical scales involved in cloud processes, from the microscale of the individual drops and ice particles up to scales of storms in which the clouds occur.

As observational technology advances with increasingly sophisticated remote sensing capabilities, detailed understanding of how the dynamics and physics of clouds affect the quantities being measured is of paramount importance. This book underpins the work necessary for proper interpretation of these observations, now and in the future.

  • Provides the holistic understanding of clouds needed to pursue research on topics vital to life on Earth
  • Provides in-depth understanding of all types of clouds over all regions of Earth, from the poles to the equator
  • Includes detailed physical and dynamical insight into the entire spectrum of clouds populating Earth's atmosphere

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Provides the holistic understanding of clouds needed to pursue research on the topics vital to life on Earth
Dedication v
Preface xiii
List of Symbols
xv
Part I Fundamentals
1 Types of Clouds in Earth's Atmosphere
3(22)
1.1 Atmospheric Structure and Scales
3(1)
1.2 Cloud Types Identified Visually
4(12)
1.2.1 Genera, Species, and Etages
4(2)
1.2.2 Low Clouds
6(4)
1.2.3 Middle Clouds
10(2)
1.2.4 High Clouds
12(1)
1.2.5 Orographic Clouds
13(3)
1.2.6 Noctilucent Clouds
16(1)
1.3 Precipitating Cloud Systems
16(4)
1.3.1 Mesoscale Convective Systems
17(1)
1.3.2 Tropical Cyclones
17(1)
1.3.3 Extratropical Cyclones
18(2)
1.4 Satellite Cloud Climatology
20(5)
2 Atmospheric Dynamics
25(22)
2.1 The Basic Equations
25(2)
2.1.1 Equation of Motion
25(1)
2.1.2 Equation of State
25(1)
2.1.3 Thermodynamic Equation
25(1)
2.1.4 Mass Continuity
26(1)
2.1.5 Water Continuity
26(1)
2.1.6 The Full Set of Equations
27(1)
2.2 Balanced Flow
27(2)
2.2.1 Quasigeostrophic Motion
27(1)
2.2.2 Semigeostrophic Motions
27(1)
2.2.3 Gradient Wind Balance
28(1)
2.2.4 Hydrostatic Balance
29(1)
2.2.5 Thermal Wind
29(1)
2.2.6 Cyclostrophic Balance
29(1)
2.3 Anelastic and Boussinesq approximations
29(2)
2.4 Vorticity
31(1)
2.5 Potential Vorticity
31(1)
2.6 Perturbation Forms of the Equations
32(1)
2.6.1 Average and Perturbation Forms of the Equation of State and Continuity Equation
32(1)
2.6.2 Flux Forms and Linearization of the Thermodynamic and Water-Continuity Equations
32(1)
2.6.3 Flux Form and Linearization of the Equation of Motion
33(1)
2.6.4 Eddy Kinetic Energy Equation
33(1)
2.7 Oscillations and Waves
33(3)
2.7.1 Buoyancy Oscillations
33(1)
2.7.2 Gravity Waves
34(1)
2.7.3 Inertial Oscillations
35(1)
2.7.4 Inertio-Gravity Waves
36(1)
2.8 Adjustment to Geostrophic and Gradient Balance
36(2)
2.9 Instabilities
38(6)
2.9.1 Buoyant, Inertial, and Symmetric Instabilities
38(2)
2.9.2 Kelvin--Helmholtz Instability
40(2)
2.9.3 Rayleigh--Benard Instability
42(2)
2.10 Representation of Eddy Fluxes
44(1)
2.10.1 K-Theory
44(1)
2.10.2 Higher Order Closure
45(1)
2.10.3 Large Eddy Simulation
45(1)
2.11 The Planetary Boundary Layer
45(2)
2.11.1 The Ekman Layer
45(1)
2.11.2 Boundary-Layer Stability
46(1)
2.11.3 The Surface Layer
46(1)
3 Cloud Microphysics
47(30)
3.1 Microphysics of Warm Clouds
47(7)
3.1.1 Nucleation of Drops
47(2)
3.1.2 Condensation and Evaporation
49(1)
3.1.3 Fallspeeds of Drops
50(1)
3.1.4 Continuous Collection
51(1)
3.1.5 Stochastic Collection
52(1)
3.1.6 Spontaneous and Collisional Breakup of Drops and Modification of the Stochastic Collection Formulation
53(1)
3.2 Microphysics of Cold Clouds
54(11)
3.2.1 Homogeneous Nucleation of Ice Particles
54(1)
3.2.2 Heterogeneous Nucleation and Other Processes Forming Small Ice Particles in Clouds
55(2)
3.2.3 Vapor Deposition and Sublimation
57(1)
3.2.4 Aggregation and Riming
58(2)
3.2.5 Hail
60(1)
3.2.6 Ice Enhancement
61(1)
3.2.7 Fallspeeds of Ice Particles
62(2)
3.2.8 Melting
64(1)
3.3 Types of Microphysical Processes and Categories of Water Substance in Clouds
65(2)
3.4 Water-Continuity Equations
67(1)
3.5 Bin Water-Continuity Models
68(2)
3.5.1 General
68(1)
3.5.2 Bin Modeling of Warm Clouds
68(1)
3.5.3 Bin Modeling of Cold Clouds
69(1)
3.6 Bulk Water-Continuity Models
70(5)
3.6.1 The Classic Kessler Approach to Bulk Water-Continuity Modeling of Warm Precipitating Clouds
70(2)
3.6.2 Multimoment Bulk Water-Continuity Modeling of Warm Clouds
72(2)
3.6.3 Bulk Modeling of Cold Clouds By Extending the Kessler Scheme
74(1)
3.7 Water-Continuity Modeling of Cold Clouds Using Generalized Mass-Size and Area-Size Relations
75(2)
4 Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation
77(24)
4.1 Absorption, Scattering, and the Microwave Domain
78(1)
4.2 Passive Microwave Sensing of Precipitation
79(1)
4.3 Radar Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation
80(2)
4.4 Radar Reflectivity from Returned Power
82(2)
4.5 Radar Polarimetry
84(2)
4.5.1 Parameters Measured by Dual-Polarization Radar
84(1)
4.5.2 Identification of Hydrometeor Type with Dual-Polarization Radar
85(1)
4.6 Relating Radar Measurements to Hydrometeor Concentration, Precipitation, Fall Velocity, and Cloud-System Structure
86(2)
4.6.1 Particle-Size Method
86(1)
4.6.2 Rain-Gauge Method
87(1)
4.6.3 Polarimetric Improvement of Rain Estimation
88(1)
4.7 Estimating Areal Precipitation from Radar Data
88(1)
4.8 Determining Cloud Morphology from Radar Data
89(1)
4.9 Doppler Radar
89(12)
4.9.1 Radial Velocity
90(1)
4.9.2 Velocity and Range Folding
91(1)
4.9.3 Vertical Incidence Observations
91(1)
4.9.4 Range-Height Data
92(1)
4.9.5 Velocity-Azimuth Display Method
92(2)
4.9.6 Multiple Doppler Synthesis
94(1)
4.9.7 Retrieval of Thermodynamic and Microphysical Variables
95(6)
Part II Phenomena
5 Clouds in Shallow Layers at Low, Middle, and High Levels
101(40)
5.1 Fog and Stratus Occurring in a Boundary Layer Cooled from Below
101(10)
5.1.1 General Considerations
101(1)
5.1.2 Turbulent Mixing in Fog
102(2)
5.1.3 Radiation Fog
104(4)
5.1.4 Arctic Stratus and Stratocumulus
108(3)
5.2 Stratocumulus Forming in Boundary Layers Heated from Below
111(13)
5.2.1 Climatology
111(1)
5.2.2 Conceptual Model of the Formation of a Cloud Topped Mixed Layer
112(2)
5.2.3 Mathematical Modeling of Cloud Topped Mixed Layer Formation
114(4)
5.2.4 Stratocumulus with Drizzle
118(1)
5.2.5 Later Stages of the Stratocumulus Lifecycle
118(1)
5.2.6 Cellular Structures and Patterns in Stratocumulus Fields
118(2)
5.2.7 Boundary Layer Rolls and Cloud Streets
120(4)
5.3 Altostratus and Altocumulus
124(3)
5.3.1 Altostratus and Altocumulus Produced as Remnants of Other Clouds
124(1)
5.3.2 Altocumulus as High Based Convective Clouds
125(1)
5.3.3 Altostratus and Altocumulus as Shallow Layer Clouds Aloft
125(2)
5.3.4 Ice Particle Generation By Altocumulus Elements
127(1)
5.3.5 Interaction of Altocumulus and Lower Cloud Layers
127(1)
5.4 Cirriform Clouds
127(14)
5.4.1 Nomenclature
127(1)
5.4.2 Climatology and Origins of Cirriform Clouds
128(2)
5.4.3 Microphysics, Vertical Air Motions, and Radiation Cirriform Clouds
130(2)
5.4.4 Small Cirriform Convective Elements---"Generating Cells"
132(1)
5.4.5 Buoyant Anvil Dynamics
133(4)
5.4.6 Radiative Destabilization and Shear Effects on a Layer of Cirriform Cloud
137(1)
5.4.7 Mesoscale Circulation Induced By Radiative Heating of a Layer of Cirriform Cloud
138(3)
6 Nimbostratus and the Separation of Convective and Stratiform Precipitation
141(24)
6.1 Definition of Stratiform Precipitation and How It Differs from Convective Precipitation
142(2)
6.2 The Contrasting Radar-Echo Structures of Stratiform and Convective Precipitation
144(2)
6.3 Microphysical Observations in Nimbostratus and Implied Vertical Air Motions
146(1)
6.4 Role of Convection in Regions of Stratiform Precipitation
147(1)
6.5 Stratiform Precipitation with Shallow Overturning Convective Cells Aloft
147(5)
6.6 Stratiform Precipitation Produced by Deep Convection
152(9)
6.6.1 Particle Fountains and the Evolution of Deep Convective Cells into Nimbostratus
152(2)
6.6.2 Stratiform Precipitation Produced by Discrete Redevelopment of Deep Convection
154(2)
6.6.3 Stratiform Precipitation Produced by Convective Redevelopment in a Various Wind Shear Environments
156(1)
6.6.4 Microphysics of the Stratiform Precipitation Associated with Deep Convective Clouds
157(4)
6.7 Radiative Effects on Nimbostratus
161(1)
6.8 Separation of Convective and Stratiform Precipitation
162(3)
7 Basic Cumulus Dynamics
165(22)
7.1 Buoyancy
165(1)
7.2 The Pressure Perturbation Field Associated with Buoyancy
166(1)
7.3 Entrainment and Detrainment
167(15)
7.3.1 General Considerations
167(1)
7.3.2 Early Views of Mixing with the Cloud's Environment
168(7)
7.3.3 More Realistic Views of Entrainment and Detrainment
175(1)
7.3.4 Effect of Entrainment on Buoyancy and Downward Motion Near Cloud Edge
176(1)
7.3.5 Lateral Versus Cloud-Top Entrainment
176(1)
7.3.6 Convective Cloud in a Fixed Column
177(3)
7.3.7 Representation of Mixing in Multidimensional Models of Convective Clouds
180(2)
7.3.8 Representation of Convective Clouds in Large Scale Models of the Atmosphere
182(1)
7.4 Vorticity and Dynamic Pressure Perturbation Forces
182(5)
7.4.1 The Vorticity Approach to Understanding Rotation and Dynamic Pressure in Convective Clouds
182(1)
7.4.2 Horizontal Vorticity
182(1)
7.4.3 Vertical Vorticity Introduced by Tilting of Environmental Horizontal Vorticity
183(1)
7.4.4 Effects of Vortices on Entrainment and Pressure Perturbation
183(4)
8 Cumulonimbus and Severe Storms
187(50)
8.1 The Basic Cumulonimbus Cloud
187(3)
8.2 Multicell Storms
190(4)
8.3 Supercell Storms
194(4)
8.4 Environmental Conditions Favoring Different Types of Deep Convective Storms
198(5)
8.5 Supercell Dynamics
203(5)
8.5.1 Storm Splitting and Propagation
203(1)
8.5.2 Directional Shear in the Environment of the Cumulonimbus Cloud
204(1)
8.5.3 Updraft Rotation
205(2)
8.5.4 Helicity and the Strength of Supercell Updraft Rotation
207(1)
8.5.5 Baroclinicity Associated with Downdrafts
207(1)
8.5.6 The Three Sources of Rotation in a Supercell
207(1)
8.6 Tornadogenesis in Supercell Storms
208(2)
8.6.1 The Primary Factors Contributing to Tornado Formation in a Supercell
208(1)
8.6.2 Occlusion Downdrafts, the Surface Mesoscyclone, and Vortex Breakdown
209(1)
8.7 Ground Tracks of Supercell Tornadoes
210(1)
8.8 Non-Supercell Tornadoes and Waterspouts
211(2)
8.9 The Tornado
213(8)
8.9.1 Observed Structure and Life Cycle of a Tornado
213(2)
8.9.2 Vortex Dynamics
215(4)
8.9.3 Vortex Breakdown
219(2)
8.9.4 Multiple Vortex Tornadoes
221(1)
8.10 Downbursts and Microbursts
221(6)
8.10.1 Definitions and Descriptive Models
222(1)
8.10.2 Effects of Microbursts on Aircraft
223(1)
8.10.3 Mechanisms Driving Microbursts
224(3)
8.10.4 Downburst Rotor Circulations and Outburst Winds
227(1)
8.11 Gust Fronts, Derechos, and Arcus Clouds
227(6)
8.11.1 Gust Front Phenomena and Nomenclature
227(1)
8.11.2 Gravity Current Dynamics
228(5)
8.12 Lines of Convective Storms
233(4)
9 Mesoscale Convective Systems
237(50)
9.1 General Characteristics
237(8)
9.1.1 Satellite Observed Cloud Tops and the Most Intense MCSs
237(1)
9.1.2 Precipitation and a More General Definition of an MCS
237(1)
9.1.3 Sizes of MCSs
238(2)
9.1.4 Basic Components of an MCS
240(1)
9.1.5 Internal Structures
241(2)
9.1.6 Life Cycle
243(2)
9.2 Leading-Line/Trailing-Stratiform Structure
245(5)
9.2.1 Radar-Echo Structure and Vertical Air Motions
245(2)
9.2.2 Multicellular Structure
247(1)
9.2.3 Forward Overhang, Rear Inflow, and Ascending Front to Rear Flow
248(1)
9.2.4 Precipitation Processes and Trajectories
248(1)
9.2.5 Pressure Pattern
248(1)
9.2.6 Electrical Structure
249(1)
9.3 Bulk Dynamical View
250(8)
9.3.1 Layered Mesoscale Airflow
250(1)
9.3.2 Streamlines of Two-Dimensional Steady State Ascent and Descent
250(4)
9.3.3 Wave Interpretations
254(2)
9.3.4 The Crossover Zone
256(2)
9.4 Details of the Convective Region
258(10)
9.4.1 Observed Airflow
258(1)
9.4.2 Pressure-Perturbation Field
259(2)
9.4.3 Thermal and Water-Vapor Perturbations
261(1)
9.4.4 Multicellular Aspect of the Convective Line and Cell Life Cycles
262(3)
9.4.5 Gravity Waves and Interaction with the Stratosphere
265(1)
9.4.6 Bow-Echo Formation and Effects of the Stratiform Region on the Convective Region
266(2)
9.5 Details of the Stratiform Region
268(13)
9.5.1 Upward Air Motion and Precipitation Development in the Stratiform Cloud
268(4)
9.5.2 Thermodynamic Structure of the Stratiform Region
272(2)
9.5.3 The Mesoscale Downdraft
274(1)
9.5.4 Kinematic and Thermodynamic Structure at the Top of the Stratiform Cloud
275(2)
9.5.5 The Wake Low
277(1)
9.5.6 Midlevel Inflow to the Mesoscale Downdraft
277(4)
9.6 Divergence, Diabatic Processes, and Vorticity
281(6)
9.6.1 The Divergence Profile
281(1)
9.6.2 The Distribution of Heating and Cooling
282(1)
9.6.3 Vortex Development
282(5)
10 Clouds and Precipitation in Tropical Cyclones
287(42)
10.1 Definitions, Climatology, and the Synoptic-Scale Contexts of Tropical Cyclones
287(1)
10.2 Clouds Involved in Tropical Cyclogenesis
288(5)
10.2.1 Idealization of the Clouds in an Intensifying Depression
288(2)
10.2.2 Example of a Vortical Hot Tower
290(1)
10.2.3 Ensemble of Clouds in a Developing Storm
290(1)
10.2.4 Cloud Feedback in Cyclogenesis
290(3)
10.3 Overview of the Mature Tropical Cyclone
293(3)
10.3.1 Visible Clouds
293(1)
10.3.2 Three-Dimensional Wind Field
293(2)
10.3.3 Equivalent Potential Temperature and Angular Momentum in Relation to the Eye and Eyewall
295(1)
10.4 The Eye
296(3)
10.5 Dynamics of the Mean Eyewall Cloud
299(7)
10.5.1 Sloping Angular Momentum Surfaces
299(1)
10.5.2 Boundary-Layer Assumptions and Implications
300(1)
10.5.3 Connecting the Balanced Vortex with a Simplified Boundary Layer
301(1)
10.5.4 Thermodynamic Relationships Applied in the Eyewall Region
302(1)
10.5.5 Characteristics of the M Surfaces Above the Boundary Layer
302(1)
10.5.6 Relating M and θe Surfaces in the Eyewall Region to the Top of the Boundary Layer
302(1)
10.5.7 Properties of the Top of Boundary Layer in the Eyewall Region
303(1)
10.5.8 Solutions for the M and θes Surfaces in the Eyewall Cloud
304(1)
10.5.9 Temporal Development and Stability of the Mean Two-Dimensional Eyewall Cloud
305(1)
10.6 Substructure and Asymmetry of the Eyewall Cloud
306(9)
10.6.1 Conditional Instability Within the Eyewall Cloud
306(2)
10.6.2 Eyewall Vorticity Maxima and Strong Updrafts
308(1)
10.6.3 Statistics of Updrafts and Downdrafts in Eyewall Clouds
309(2)
10.6.4 Downdrafts in the Eyewall
311(1)
10.6.5 Eyewall Asymmetry Owing to Storm Motion and Shear
312(1)
10.6.6 Cloud Microphysical Processes in the Eyewall and Inner Core Region
313(2)
10.6.7 Electrification of the Eyewall Cloud
315(1)
10.7 The Region Beyond the Eyewall: Rainbands and Eyewall Replacement
315(14)
10.7.1 The Eyewall/Rainband Complex---An Overview
315(4)
10.7.2 Distant Rainbands
319(1)
10.7.3 The Principal Rainband
319(3)
10.7.4 Vortex Rossby Waves and Secondary Rainbands
322(3)
10.7.5 Eyewall Contraction and Replacement
325(4)
11 Clouds and Precipitation in Extratropical Cyclones
329(40)
11.1 Structure and Dynamics of a Baroclinic Wave
330(4)
11.1.1 Idealized Horizontal and Vertical Structure
330(1)
11.1.2 Dynamics Governing Large Scale Vertical Air Motion
331(2)
11.1.3 Application of the Omega Equation to a Real Baroclinic Wave
333(1)
11.1.4 Low-Level Cyclone Development
334(1)
11.1.5 Development of the Thermal Pattern in an Extratropical Cyclone
334(1)
11.2 Circulation at a Front
334(10)
11.2.1 Quasigeostrophic Frontogenesis
335(2)
11.2.2 Semigeostrophic Frontogenesis
337(3)
11.2.3 Moist Frontogenesis
340(1)
11.2.4 Some Simple Theoretical Examples
341(3)
11.3 Horizontal Patterns of Frontal Zones in Developing Cyclones
344(3)
11.4 Clouds and Precipitation in a Frontal Cyclone
347(16)
11.4.1 Water-Vapor Influx, Atmospheric Rivers, and the Warm Conveyor Belt
347(1)
11.4.2 Satellite Observed Cloud Patterns
347(2)
11.4.3 Distribution of Precipitation Within the Cloud Pattern
349(3)
11.4.4 Narrow Cold Frontal Rainbands
352(3)
11.4.5 Wide Cold Frontal Rainbands
355(2)
11.4.6 Warm Frontal Rainbands
357(4)
11.4.7 Clouds and Precipitation Associated with the Trough of Warm Air Aloft
361(1)
11.4.8 Rainbands in the Comma Head of the Occlusion
362(1)
11.5 Clouds in Polar Lows
363(6)
11.5.1 Comma-Cloud Systems
363(2)
11.5.2 Tropical Cyclone Dynamics in Cold Airstreams
365(4)
12 Clouds and Precipitation Associated with Hills and Mountains
369(34)
12.1 Shallow Clouds in Stable Upslope Flow
369(1)
12.2 Wave Clouds Produced by Long Ridges
370(9)
12.2.1 Flow over Sinusoidal Terrain
370(2)
12.2.2 Flow over a Ridge of Arbitrary Shape
372(1)
12.2.3 Clouds Associated with Vertically Propagating Waves
373(1)
12.2.4 Clouds Associated with Lee Waves
374(2)
12.2.5 Nonlinear Effects: Large Amplitude Waves, Blocking, the Hydraulic Jump, and Rotor Clouds
376(3)
12.3 Clouds Associated with Flow over Isolated Peaks
379(6)
12.4 Effects of Mountains and Hills on Precipitation Mechanisms
385(1)
12.4.1 Microphysical Timescale and Terrain Size
385(1)
12.4.2 Vapor Pressure of Air Rising over Complex Topography
386(1)
12.4.3 Dynamics of Airflow Encountering Hills and Mountains
386(1)
12.5 Basic Scenarios by Which Hills and Mountains Affect Precipitating Clouds
386(6)
12.5.1 Upslope Flow: Laminar and Overturning
386(2)
12.5.2 Diurnal Forcing
388(1)
12.5.3 Cloud Layers Moving over Small Terrain Features and the "Seeder-Feeder" Mechanism
388(2)
12.5.4 Convection Associated with Wave Motions in the Wake of a Hill
390(1)
12.5.5 Blocking Effects on Precipitation
390(2)
12.5.6 Capping and Triggering of Intense Deep Convection
392(1)
12.6 How Major Precipitating Cloud Systems Are Affected by Mountains
392(11)
12.6.1 Convective Precipitation and Orography
393(1)
12.6.2 Frontal Systems Passing over Mountain Ranges
394(5)
12.6.3 Tropical Cyclones Encountering Mountains
399(4)
References 403(20)
Index 423
Professor Houze received his B.S. in Meteorology from Texas A&M University in 1967. He received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1972. In 1988-89 he was Guest Professor in the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. In 1996 he was Houghton Lecturer at the Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2006 he was Thompson Lecturer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has published about 200 research articles and has written a graduate textbook entitled Cloud Dynamics. In 1982, Professor Houze was awarded both the American Meteorological Society's Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award for his research and the Society's Editor's award for his reviews of papers for the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. In 1989 he won the NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories' Distinguished Author's Award. In 2002, he was designated as a Highly Cited Researcher” by the Institute of Scientific Information (h-index 56). In 2006, Professor Houze received the American Meteorological Society's Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, which is the highest honor that the Society can bestow on an atmospheric scientist. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and he delivered the Bjerknes Memorial Lecture at the American Geophysical Union's 2012 annual meeting. In 2013 he will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his fundamental research on cloud dynamics.