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| View Larger Image | Principles of Environmental Physics, Third Edition
by John Monteith, Mike Unsworth
| | List Price: | $49.95 | | Price: | $39.96 | | You Save: | $9.99 (20%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 375366 | | Studio: | Academic Press | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 440 | | Publication Date: | October 25, 2007 | | Publisher: | Academic Press |
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Product Description
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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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The BOOK of Environmental Physics 
A must have for any environmental sciences student or any scientist. Very complete and at the same time very straight forward.
May 16, 2008 | |
Good reference to make you look smart at work
Okay, so this is not a great beach read, page turner, or anything you want on your coffee table. But it is nice book to have on your shelf in your office if you do work in environmental or climate science. In all honesty, I will probably never use 99% of the stuff that this book contains, but when I need an equation for heat or mass transport, radiation, etc., I usually find it in this book. It probably is most useful for those in satellite remote sensing and image processing or in environmental or climate modeling, as it contains a considerable amount of information on the effect of difference surfaces on radiation and wind patterns. The last two chapters contain detailed equations for crop micro-meteorology and sum up most of the principles in the book.
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