Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere - Rilegato

Monteith, John L.; Unsworth, Mike H.

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ISBN 10: 0123869102 ISBN 13: 9780123869104

Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Environmental Physics concerns the description and analysis of physical processes that establish the conditions in which all species of life survive and reproduce. The subject involves a synthesis of mathematical relations that describe the physical nature of the environment and the many biological responses that environments evoke. Environmental Physics provides a basis for understanding the complex responses of plants and animals to environmental change.

International concern with climate change has made both politicans and the general public much more aware of the impact of local and global weather on all aspects of domestic life, industry and commerce. Environmental Physics has become more widely used by biologists, atmospheric scientists and climate modellers to specify interations between surfaces and the atmosphere. This new edition contains further material on causes of global warming, applications of remote sensing, and the carbon and water cycles of crops and forests.

* Presents a unique synthesis of micrometeorology and ecology in its widest sense.
* Deals quantitatively with the impact of weather on living systems but also with the interactions between them that are a central feature of life on earth
* Includes an up-to-date bibliography and review of recent micrometeorological applications in forestry, ecology, hydrology and agriculture
* Includes numerical problems and worked examples

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Unsworth is Professor Emeritus of Physics of Oceans and Atmospheres at Oregon State University. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton and the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Before his tenure at Oregon State University, he was Professor and ultimately Dean of the Faulty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at Nottingham University. He has also served as Head of Station and the NERC Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh Research Station and Director at the Center for Analysis of Environmental Change. His work specializes in environmental physics, microclimatology, and agricultural and forest meteorology. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books on these topics over his prolific career of more than 50 years.

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Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, Fourth Edition, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical principles, analytic tools, and data analysis methods they need to solve problems. This book describes the principles by which radiative energy reaches the earth s surface and reviews the latest knowledge concerning the surface radiation budget. The processes of radiation, convection, conduction, evaporation, and carbon dioxide exchange are analyzed. Many applications of environmental physics principles are reviewed, including the roles of surface albedo and atmospheric aerosols in modifying microclimate and climate, remote sensing of vegetation properties, wind forces on trees and crops, dispersion of pathogens and aerosols, controls of evaporation from vegetation and soils (including implications of changing weather and climate), and interpretation of micrometeorological measurements of carbon dioxide and other trace gas fluxes.

Key features:

• Presents a unique synthesis of micrometeorology and ecology in its widest sense
• Deals quantitatively with the impact of weather on living systems but also with the interactions between organisms and the atmosphere that are a central feature of life on earth
• Offers numerous worked examples and problems with solutions
• Provides many examples of laboratory and field measurements and their interpretation
• Includes an up-to-date bibliography and review of recent micrometeorological applications in forestry, ecology, hydrology, and agriculture

New to this edition:

• More material on causes of global warming, applications of remote sensing, and the carbon and water cycles of crops and forests
• Details models and applications to help solve the problems environmental scientists, ecologists, and hydrologists face today
• Additional examples from plant and animal research
• Expanded derivations of critical physical principles, providing more clarity for readers from non-physics backgrounds

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Academic Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0123869102
• ISBN 13: 9780123869104
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 401
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile