Description
Book SynopsisOffers a concise description of atmospheric layers sensitively pitched for the non-meteorological specialist in a variety of disciplines: in geography, agriculture, forestry, ecology, engineering, environment and planning.
Trade Review`A fine text for students wishing to understand the physical processes ocurring near the earth's surface while avoiding the more mathematical approach adopted by many specialized micrometeorological texts.' - Royal Meteorological Society
`Text and diagrams are a model of clarity, logicality and precision, sensitively designed to appeal toall those seeking a basic but comprehensive and scrupulously scientific understanding of the processes in the lower kilometre or so of the atmosphere.' - World Meteorological Organisation
Table of ContentsPart I Atmospheric systems, CHAPTER 1 ENERGY AND MASS EXCHANGES, CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL BASIS OF BOUNDARY LAYER CLIMATES, CHAPTER 3 CLIMATES OF SIMPLE NON-VEGETATED SURFACES, CHAPTER 4 CLIMATES OF VEGETATED SURFACES, CHAPTER 5 CLIMATES OF NON-UNIFORM TERRAIN, CHAPTER 6 CLIMATES OF ANIMALS, Part III Man-modified atmospheric environments, CHAPTER 7 INTENTIONALLY MODIFIED CLIMATES, CHAPTER 8 INADVERTENT CLIMATE MODIFICATION, CHAPTER 9 AIR POLLUTION IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER
