Cirrus

First Authors. 1. Cirrus: History and Definition, David K. Lynch. 2. Cirrus Clouds: A Modern Perspective, Kenneth Sassen. 3. Ice Crystals in Cirrus, John Hallett, William P. Arnott, Matthew P. Bailey, and Joan T. Hallett. 4. Mid-latitude and Tropical Cirrus: Microphysical Properties, Andrew J. Heymsfield and Greg M. McFarquhar. 5. Laboratory Studies of Cirrus Cloud Processes, Paul DeMott. 6. Cirrus and Weather: A Satellite Perspective, Donald P. Wylie. 7. Satellite Remote Sensing of Cirrus, Patrick Minnis. 8. Ground-based Remote Sensing of Cirrus Clouds, Kenneth Sassen and Gerald Mace. 9. Molecular-Backscatter Lidar Profiling of the Volume- Scattering Coefficient in Cirrus, Abert Ansmann. 10. Structural and Optical Properties of Cirrus from LIRAD-Type Observations, C. Martin and R. Platt. 11. Contrail Cirrus, Ulrich Schumann. 12. Subvisual Cirrus, David K. Lynch and Kenneth Sassen. 13. Radiative Transfer in Cirrus Clouds: Light Scattering and Spectral Information, K. N. Liou, Y. Takano, P. Yang, and Y. Gu. 14. On Cirrus Modeling for General Circulation and Climate Models, Hilding Sundqvist. 15. GCM Simulations of Cirrus for Climate Studies, Anthony D. Del Genio. 16. Ice Clouds in Numerical Weather Prediction Models: Progress, Problems, and Prospects, Christian Jakob. 17. Dynamic Processes in Cirrus Clouds: A Review of Observational Results, Markus Quante and David O'C. Starr. 18. Dynamic Processes in Cirrus Clouds: Concepts and Models, David O'C. Starr and Markus Quante. 19. Microphysical Processes in Cirrus and Their Impact on Radiation: A Mesoscale Modeling Perspective, Vitaly I. Khvorostyanov and Kenneth Sassen. 20. Cirrus, Climate, and Global Change, Graeme Stephens. 21. Cirrus: The Future, David K. Lynch, Kenneth Sassen, Anthony Del Genio, Andrew Heymsfield, Patrick Minnis, Martin Platt, Markus Quante, Ulrich Schumann, and Hilding Sundqvist. Appendix: Chapter 2 Plates - Cirrus Case Studies. Index