Principles of environmental physics

This book provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It describes the principles by which radiative energy reaches the earth's surface and reviews the latest knowledge concerning the surface radiation budget. The pr...

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Main Author: Monteith, John Lennox
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Academic Press c2013, 2013
Edition:4th ed
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Summary:This book provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It 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, and many applications of environmental physics principles are reviewed
Item Description:Previous ed.: 2008
Physical Description:online resource
ISBN:0123869935
0123869102
9780123869937
9780123869104