Boeker, Egbert.

Environmental physics / Egbert Boeker and Rienk van Grondelle. - 2nd ed. - Chichester ; New York : Wiley, c1999. - xii, 442 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

Foreword.......................................................................................................................................................................................................ix
Preface.......................................................................................................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgement.....................................................................................................................................................................................xiii

1Introduction: The Essentials of Environmental Physics 1-9

2 Basic Environmental Spectroscopy 11-28

3 The Global Climate 29-62

4 Energy for Human Use 63-189

5 Transport of Pollutants 193-280

6 Noise 283-327

7 Spectra and Examples of Environmental Spectroscopy 329-396

8 The Context of Society 399-427

Appendix A Gauss, Delta and Error Functions 429
Appendix B Some Vector Differentiations 431
Appendix C Physical and Numerical Constants 433

Index 435

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Environmental sciences.
Physics.
Atmospheric physics.

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