Principles of environmental physics : plants, animals and the atmosphere

This book Provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with Reviews their natural environment . It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and Researchers with the physical principles, analytic tools , and methods of data analysis they need to solve problems . This book describes the principles by the 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 environmental applications of physics principles are reviewed restaurants , 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 soil (including implications of changing weather and climate ) , and interpretation of micrometeorological measurements of carbon dioxide and other trace gas fluxe