Description
Book SynopsisA unified presentation of environmental model development, implementation, and testing
Integrated Environmental Modeling teaches model development, model implementation, and model testing skills in a unified manner, crosscutting the three media comprising environmental systems--air, water, and soil--by focusing on parallels and similarities between them, and introducing a new generation of multimedia models. No other single volume offers comprehensive coverage of chemical transport and fate in all three environmental media, including the resulting impacts on the biosphere and human health, with a focus on the fundamental processes underlying environmental modeling.
Integrated Environmental Modeling provides broad-based training in the development of pollutant transport and fate models in air, water, and soil, with a focus on five essential competencies:
* Understanding the fundamental process principles that govern contaminant transport and transformations in mult
Table of ContentsDedication.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
1. Introduction to Modeling the Transport and Transformation of Contaminants in the Environment.
2. Nature of Environmental Pollutants.
3. Intermedia Contaminant Transfer: Equilibrium Analysis.
4. Kinetics of Intermedia Pollutant Transfer.
5. Transport Fundamentals.
6. Overview of Numerical Methods in Environmental Modeling.
7. Overview of Probabilistic Methods and Tools for Modeling.
8. Models of Transport in Air.
9. Models of Transport in Soil and Groundwater.
10. Models of Transport in Surface Water.
11. Atmospheric Transformation and Loss Processes.
12. Modeling Chemical Transformations in Water.
13. Exposure and Risk Assessment.
14. Tools for Evaluation, Analysis, and Optimization of Environmental Models.
Bibliography.
Index.
