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Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling Gordon Bonan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling By Gordon Bonan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling by Gordon Bonan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)


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Summary

Using theory and practice, this text covers the fundamentals of environmental biophysics, biogeochemical cycles, and vegetation dynamics. It bridges the disciplinary gap among the different ecosystem models developed by atmospheric scientists, ecologists, and hydrologists. Review questions, supplemental code, and modeling projects are provided.

Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling Summary

Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling by Gordon Bonan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

Climate models have evolved into Earth system models with representation of the physics, chemistry, and biology of terrestrial ecosystems. This companion book to Gordon Bonan's Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition, builds on the concepts introduced there, and provides the mathematical foundation upon which to develop and understand ecosystem models and their relevance for these Earth system models. The book bridges the disciplinary gap among land surface models developed by atmospheric scientists; biogeochemical models, dynamic global vegetation models, and ecosystem demography models developed by ecologists; and ecohydrology models developed by hydrologists. Review questions, supplemental code, and modeling projects are provided, to aid with understanding how the equations are used. The book is an invaluable guide to climate change and terrestrial ecosystem modeling for graduate students and researchers in climate change, climatology, ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, meteorology, environmental science, mathematical modeling, and environmental biophysics.

About Gordon Bonan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)

Gordon Bonan is senior scientist and head of the Terrestrial Sciences Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He studies the interactions of terrestrial ecosystems with climate, using models of Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. He is the author of Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications (3rd edition, Cambridge, 2015) and has published 150 peer-reviewed articles in atmospheric science, geoscience, and ecological journals on terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and their coupling. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society and has served on advisory boards for numerous national and international organizations and as an editor for several journals.

Table of Contents

Preface; List of symbols; 1. Terrestrial biosphere models; 2. Quantitative description of ecosystems; 3. Fundamentals of energy and mass transfer; 4. Mathematical formulation of biological flux rates; 5. Soil temperature; 6. Turbulent fluxes and scalar profiles in the surface layer; 7. Surface energy fluxes; 8. Soil moisture; 9. Hydrologic scaling and spatial heterogeneity; 10. Leaf temperature and energy fluxes; 11. Leaf photosynthesis; 12. Stomatal conductance; 13. Plant hydraulics; 14. Radiative transfer; 15. Plant canopies; 16. Scalar canopy profiles; 17. Biogeochemical models; 18. Soil biogeochemistry; 19. Vegetation demography; 20. Canopy chemistry; Appendix; References; Index.

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NPB9781107619074
9781107619074
1107619076
Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling by Gordon Bonan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-02-21
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