Atmosphere-Vegetation-Soil Interactions

This book covers the transport of heat and water in the entire continuum of soil, vegetation and lower atmosphere (as is relevant for instance for weather forecast models, hydrological models and climate models). It encompasses: the meteorology of the lower part of the atmosphere (micrometeorology, including in-depth treatment of similarity relationships), transport processes inside of plants as well as the microclimate in vegetations, the transport of energy, water and solutes in the soil the interactions between the compartments, application of the theory in the fields of crop water requirements, numerical weather prediction and hydrological modelling. The text is interspersed with many problems, of which the solutions are given at the end of the book. Furthermore, each chapter contains many references to up-to-date literature.