Fundamental Principles of Environmental Physics, (Hardcover)

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.