Syllabus
Selected topics which will be detailed according to the individual need of the students:
1) Physics of the water substance
2) Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation of liquid water and ice
3) Diffusional growth of water drops and ice particles
4) Cloud particle collisions
5) Coalescence, riming and aggregation - detailed physics
Annotation
Course offers a detailed treatment of selected problems of cloud and precipitation physics, like the structure of the water substance, homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation and freezing, detailed study of the diffusional growth and coalescence/riming/aggregation, hydrodynamics of cloud elements and cloud chemistry.