Author : Stefan Trapp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642804292
Partitioning of chemicals in the environment and its modeling is becoming an important field in environmental science and engineering. This book enables students, researchers, and interested laymen to enter the field of environmental modeling in a fast and effective way. The book contains modeling software (CemoS V 1.10), data sets and the CemoS handbook. Each chapter contains examples and exercises.
Author : Wout Baumung
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release :
Category : Pollution
ISBN : 9781680951240
Environmental chemodynamics is very important to be able to trace the paths of chemicals in the environment. Many chemicals are harmful to the environment and especially to humans. In recent years, regulations on defined harmful chemicals have increased. Environmental chemodynamics specially deals with the many aspects that affect chemical influence on the environment and humans. Equilibrium models are used to address aspects of the potential for chemical redistribution in the natural environment. "Chemodynamics and Environmental Modeling" contains twelve chapters. First chapter ensures the environmental modeling, technology, and communication for land falling tropical cyclone/hurricane prediction. Individual, environmental, and meteorological predictors of daily personal ultraviolet radiation exposure measurements in a United States cohort has been described in chapter second. Third chapter examines environmental modeling and exposure assessment of sediment-associated pyrethroids in an agricultural watershed. Fourth chapter presents the tracking contributions to human body burden of environmental chemicals by correlating environmental measurements with biomarkers. Strong impact of temporal resolution on the structure of an ecological network has been discussed in chapter fifth. Sixth and seventh chapters review the chemodynamics of methyl parathion and ethyl parathion with adsorption models for sustainable agriculture and special analysis for flood control by using environmental modeling. Eight and ninth chapters focus on strategic environmental assessment to improve infrastucture impact assessments in Brazil and how to integrate environmental determinants with monitoring recreational waters. A simulation model for road and maritime environmental performance assessment has been represented in chapter tenth. Eleventh chapter elaborates the method dehydrogenase gene, MXAF, as a functional and phylogenetic marker for proteobacterial methanotrophs in natural environments. Last chapter provides the aerosol characteristics over the Indo-Gangetic basin with implications to regional climate.
Author : Louis J. Thibodeaux
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780471612957
What happens to a chemical once it enters the natural environment?How do its physical and chemical properties influence itstransport, persistence, and partitioning in the biosphere? How donatural forces influence its distribution? How are the answers tothese questions useful in making toxicological and epidemiologicalforecasts? Environmental Chemodynamics, Second Edition introduces readers tothe concepts, tools, and techniques currently used to answer theseand other critical questions about the fate and transport ofchemicals in the natural environment. Like its critically acclaimedpredecessor, its main focus is on the mechanisms and rates ofmovement of chemicals across the air/soil, soil/water, andwater/air interfaces, and on how natural processes work to mobilizechemicals near and across interfaces--information vital toperforming human and ecological risk assessments. Also consistent with the first edition, EnvironmentalChemodynamics, Second Edition is organized to accommodate readersof every level of experience. The first section is devoted totheoretical underpinnings and includes discussions of mass balance,thermodynamics, transport science concepts, and more. The secondsection concentrates on practical aspects, including the movementbetween bed-sediment and water, movement between soil and air, andintraphase chemical behavior. This revised and updated edition of Louis J. Thibodeaux's 1979classic features new or expanded coverage of: * Equilibrium models for environmental compartments * Dry deposition of particles and vapors onto water and soilsurfaces * Chemical profiles in rivers and estuaries, particles and porousmedia * Fate and transport in the atmospheric boundary layer and withinsubterranean media * Chemical exchange between water column and bed-sediment * Intraphase chemical transport and fate This Second Edition of Environmental Chemodynamics also includestwice as many references and 50% more exercises and practiceproblems.
Author : William G. Gray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107571693
This textbook presents the timeless basic physical and mathematical principles and philosophy of environmental modeling to students who need to be taught how to think in a different way than they would for more narrowly-defined engineering or physics problems. Examples come from a range of hydrologic, atmospheric, and geophysical problems.
Author : Ekkehard Holzbecher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642220428
The book has two aims: to introduce basic concepts of environmental modelling and to facilitate the application of the concepts using modern numerical tools such as MATLAB. It is targeted at all natural scientists dealing with the environment: process and chemical engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, biochemists, hydrogeologists, geochemists and ecologists. MATLAB was chosen as the major computer tool for modeling, firstly because it is unique in it's capabilities, and secondly because it is available in most academic institutions, in all universities and in the research departments of many companies. In the 2nd edition many chapters will include updated and extended material. In addition the MATLAB command index will be updated and a new chapter on numerical methods will be added. For the second edition of 'Environmental Modeling' the first edition was completely revised. Text and figures were adapted to the recent MATLAB® version. Several chapters were extended. Correspondingly the index of MATLAB commands was extended considerably, which makes the book even more suitable to be used as a reference work by novices. Finally an introduction into numerical methods was added as a new chapter. “/p>
Author : Anthony J. Jakeman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080915302
The complex and multidisciplinary nature of environmental problems requires that they are dealt with in an integrated manner. Modeling and software have become key instruments used to promote sustainability and improve environmental decision processes, especially through systematic integration of various knowledge and data and their ability to foster learning and help make predictions. This book presents the current state-of-the-art in environmental modeling and software and identifies the future challenges in the field. State-of-the-art in environmental modeling and software theory and practice for integrated assessment and management serves as a starting point for researchers Identifies the areas of research and practice required for advancing the requisite knowledge base and tools, and their wider usage Best practices of environmental modeling enables the reader to select appropriate software and gives the reader tools to integrate natural system dynamics with human dimensions
Author : Louis J. Thibodeaux
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1979-07-26
Category : Science
ISBN :
Reviews existing knowledge in the natural and engineering sciences to determine the rates, lifetimes, routes, and reservoirs of chemicals moving through the environment and to estimate the level of exposure to susceptible living and nonliving targets. Uses simple models and ideas as guides in constructing integrated environmental and ecosystem models for simulating chemical movement and fate. Coverage includes phase equilibrium and transport processes; the interphase and intraphase transport process; movement of inorganic and organic chemicals across the air-water interface; desorption of chemicals from the mud-water interface; volatilization of pesticides from air-soil surfaces; and vertical distribution of dissolved, reactive chemicals in stratified waterbodies. Includes numerous problems from current literature and appendices with chemical, physical, transport, and environmental data.
Author : Sven E. Jorgensen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1351442880
With descriptions of hundreds of the most important environmental and ecological models, this handbook is a unique and practical reference source. The Handbook of Environmental and Ecological Modeling is ideal for those working in environmental modeling, including regulators and managers who wish to understand the models used to make assessments. Overviews of more than 360 models are easily accessed in this handbook, allowing readers to quickly locate information they need about models available in a given ecosystem. The material in the Handbook of Environmental and Ecological Modeling is logically arranged according to ecosystem. Each of the sixteen chapters of the handbook covers a particular ecosystem, and includes not only the descriptions of the models, but also an overview of the state-of-the-art in modeling for that particular ecosystem. A summary of the spectrum of available models is also provided in each chapter. The extensive table of contents and the easy-to-use index put materials immediately at your fingertips.
Author : Sven E. Jorgensen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1995-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781566702027
With descriptions of hundreds of the most important environmental and ecological models, this handbook is a unique and practical reference source. The Handbook of Environmental and Ecological Modeling is ideal for those working in environmental modeling, including regulators and managers who wish to understand the models used to make assessments. Overviews of more than 360 models are easily accessed in this handbook, allowing readers to quickly locate information they need about models available in a given ecosystem. The material in the Handbook of Environmental and Ecological Modeling is logically arranged according to ecosystem. Each of the sixteen chapters of the handbook covers a particular ecosystem, and includes not only the descriptions of the models, but also an overview of the state-of-the-art in modeling for that particular ecosystem. A summary of the spectrum of available models is also provided in each chapter. The extensive table of contents and the easy-to-use index put materials immediately at your fingertips.
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