The Climate Near the Ground

ISBN-13: 9783322865847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 528 str.

Rudolf Geiger; Robert H. Aron; Paul Todhunter

Opis

Anyone who merely turns the pages of this new edition will find that 48 percent of the fig ures are familiar to him from the third edition. But whoever reads it will discover that no three consecutive pages of text have been transferred unaltered. The enormous development that has taken place since 1950, particularly the surprising extension in the practical applica tions of micrometeorology, have made it necessary to rewrite the book. In producing this work, I had in mind two aims which were linked more closely to each other than I had at first dared to hope. The new edition was to be a clear and vivid textbook for those who were just taking up the study of microclimatology, and at the same time a ref erence work for those already familiar with the subject. For the fIrst task, I had in mind the students who would recoil with horror at the insurmountable barrier of an apparently unlim ited and ever-increasing pile of literature and thus were in need of assistance. In addition, I was thinking of colleagues working in related sciences, who have no time to study our liter ature."

Spis treści

Contents: Earth`s surface energy balance - The air layer over level ground without vegetation - Influence of the underlying surface on the adjacent air layer - Further analysis of the energy balance - The effect of low plant cover on the surface air layer - Forest Climatology - The influence of topography on the microclimate - Interrelation of animals and humans to the microclimate - Index

O autorze

Die Bearbeiter: Prof. Aron lehrt Geographie und Klimatologie an der Universität Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA; Dr. Todhunter ist Klimatologe an der Universität von Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.