Updated and revised second edition

Includes five new chapters on convective-stratiform rainfall, budget-derived rainfall separation schemes, effects of doubled carbon dioxide on rainfall, modeling of Wegener- Bergeron-Findeisen process and precipitation predictability

Contains more than a hundred detailed illustrations about cloud-resolving modeling of convective processes

Comprehensive information on many research aspects related to convective development

Xiaofan Li is Qiushi Distinguished professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA and a master's degree in meteorology from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Shouting Gao is a professor at the Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storm, Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has a doctorate and a master's degree in meteorology from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China.