Microclimate and Local Climate
Cambridge University Press, 5/23/2016
EAN 9781107145627, ISBN10: 1107145627
Hardcover, 379 pages, 26.1 x 18.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the variables and processes of microclimate and local climate, including radiation balance and energy balance. It describes and explains the climate within the lower atmosphere and upper soil, the region critical to life on Earth. Topics that are covered include not only the physical processes that affect microclimate, but also biological processes that affect vegetation and animals, including people. A geographic tour of the microclimates of the major ecosystems around the world is included. All major biomes and surface types, including urban areas, are examined, and the effects of climate change on microclimate are described. This book is invaluable for advanced students and researchers in climatology in departments of environmental science, geography, meteorology, agricultural science, and forestry.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I. Controls of Microclimate
2. Microclimatic elements
3. Methods of observation and instrumentation
4. Radiation
5. The energy balance
6. Monitoring and modeling of radiation and energy balance via remote sensing and land surface models
7. Microclimates of different vegetated environments
8. Microclimates of physical systems
9. Bioclimatology
Part II. Local Climates
10. Urban climates
11. Topoclimatic effects on microclimate
Part III. Environmental Change
12. The effects of climate change on microclimates
Problems
Glossary
Symbols
SI units and conversions
Index.