Books by Raul Albuquerque Sardinha

This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics. It allows readers to gain a more complete understanding of physical process and their interaction with ecological ones underpin important environmental issues.The book covers a wide range of topics within environmental physics, including:¿ natural and anthropogenic canopies, including forests, urban or wavy terrains;¿ the fundamentals of heat transfer;¿ atmospheric flow dynamics;¿ global carbon budget;¿ climate change; and¿ the relevance of biochar as a global carbon sink.Including solved exercises, numerous illustrations and tables, as well as an entire chapter focused on applications, book is of interest to researchers, students and industrial engineers alike.