Fundamental Principles Of Environmental Physics

Download or read book Fundamental Principles of Environmental Physics written by Abel Rodrigues and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics. It allows readers to gain a more complete understanding of physical process and their interaction with ecological ones underpin important environmental issues. The book covers a wide range of topics within environmental physics, including: • natural and anthropogenic canopies, including forests, urban or wavy terrains;• the fundamentals of heat transfer;• atmospheric flow dynamics;• global carbon budget;• climate change; and• the relevance of biochar as a global carbon sink. Including solved exercises, numerous illustrations and tables, as well as an entire chapter focused on applications, book is of interest to researchers, students and industrial engineers alike.