Peter Blanken

Essentials of Water (eBook, ePUB)

Water in the Earth's Physical and Biological Environments

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108996457
• Artikelnr.: 72349824

Autorenporträt

Peter D. Blanken is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he has taught courses in climatology and biometeorology for over 25 years. His research appears in almost 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. He is co-author of Microclimate and Local Climate (2016, Cambridge University Press), and has served on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society for over 20 years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The historical significance of water
2. The composition of water
3. The properties of water
4. The origin of water
5. The distribution of liquid water
6. The distribution of ice
7. Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
8. Melting and freezing, sublimation and deposition
9. Liquid water weathering, erosion, and landforms
10. Cold region processes and landforms
11. The ascent of water within vegetation
12. Transpiration
13. Water and thermoregulation: amphibians, reptiles, and insects
14. Water and thermoregulation: humans
15. Water quality
16. Changes in evaporation and humidity.