Overview
- Presents a thorough, interdisciplinary overview of environmental physics
- Addresses everything from fundamental principles to mathematical formulations related to the topic
- Develops a methodology to characterize the atmospheric surface layer, mass, and energy flow
- Provides numerous solved examples, illustrations, and applications
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Raúl Sardinha has a M.Sc. in Forestry from the School of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Lisbon (1962) and a Ph.D. in Wood Science from Oxford (1974). He was Full Professor at ISA (Un. Lisboa) and retired in 2002. Professor Sardinha directed the PortugueseNational Forest Research Station in 1988–1995, and headed the University of Madeira (1988–1993) and University Piaget in Guinea-Bissau (2010–2014). He was a member of the Board of the European Forest Institute (1993–1995) and represented Portugal in various international research organizations. He developed research on the properties and suitability of the use of forest products and on natural resources research policy for sustainable management in tropical countries. He has authored 85 scientific research papers and co-authored more than 120 more.
Gabriel Pita has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering/Applied Thermodynamics (1975) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1988), both from IST. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IST, where he teaches Applied Thermodynamics, Physical Ecology, and Mass and Energy Transfer. Professor Pita’s research has dealt with applied combustion, characterization of the impacts of droughts on Portuguese forests, and and analysis of carbon uptake and productivity in eucalypt plantations. He has co-authored 44 scientific research publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamental Principles of Environmental Physics
Authors: Abel Rodrigues, Raul Albuquerque Sardinha, Gabriel Pita
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69025-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69024-3Published: 23 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69027-4Published: 23 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69025-0Published: 22 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 372
Number of Illustrations: 84 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Physics, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Climate, general, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer