Introduction to environmental physics : planet earth, life and climate / Nigel Mason, Peter Hughes ; with Randall McMullan ... [and others] ; with a foreword by John Houghton
xxiv, 463 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents
Ch. 1. Environmental physics: processes and issues -- Ch. 2. The human environment -- Ch. 3. The built environment -- Ch. 4. The urban environment -- Ch. 5. Energy for living -- Ch. 6. Revealing the planet -- Ch. 7. The Sun and the atmosphere -- Ch. 8. Observing the Earth's weather -- Ch. 9. Global weather patterns and climate -- Ch. 10. Physics and soils -- Ch. 11. Vegetation growth and the carbon balance -- Ch. 12. Environmental issues for the twenty-first century -- App. 1. Entropy -- App. 2. Mathematics behind Newton's law of cooling -- App. 3. Energy consumption self-assessment -- App. 4. Doppler effect -- App. 5. Pressure variation with altitude -- App. 6. Derivation of the lapse rate -- App. 7. Synoptic weather chart -- App. 8. Environmental risk and environment impact assessment of ozone-related disasters -- App. 9. Units and constants
