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: Abel Rodrigues (INIAV), Raul Albuquerque, Sardinha, Gabriel Pita
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