Fundamental Principles of Environmental Physics

<br> 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. <br> The book covers a wide range of topics within environmental physics, including: <br> * 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. <br> 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. <br>