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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Shuttleworth worked for 20 years at the UK's Institute of Hydrology, ultimately as Head of the Hydrological Processes Division. In 1993 he joined the University of Arizona where he is Regents' Professor in both the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources and the Atmospheric Sciences Department. He has served on numerous national and international scientific advisory committees, including the National Research Council, the International Council of Scientific Unions, the International Hydrology Programme, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and the World Climate Research Programme. In 2001 Dr. Shuttleworth was awarded the AGU Hydrology Prize for "outstanding contributions to the science of hydrology", and in 2006 IAHS, UNESCO and WMO jointly awarded him the prestigious International Hydrology Prize. Klappentext Both hydrologists and meteorologists need to speak a common scientific language, and this has given rise to the new scientific discipline of hydrometeorology, which deals with the transfer of water and energy across the land/atmosphere interface.Terrestrial Hydrometeorology is the first graduate-level text with sufficient breadth and depth to be used in hydrology departments to teach relevant aspects of meteorology, and in meteorological departments to teach relevant aspects of hydrology, and to serve as an introductory text to teach the emerging discipline of hydrometeorology.The book will be essential reading for graduate students studying surface water hydrology, meteorology, and hydrometeorology. It can also be used in advanced undergraduate courses, and will be welcomed by academic and professional hydrologists and meteorologists worldwide.Additional resources for this book can be found at: http://www.wiley.com/go/shuttleworth/hydrometeorology. Zusammenfassung Both hydrologists and meteorologists need to speak a common scientific language, and this has given rise to the new scientific discipline of hydrometeorology, which deals with the transfer of water and energy across the land/atmosphere interface. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword xvi Preface xviii Acknowledgements xix 1 Terrestrial Hydrometeorology and the Global Water Cycle 1 Introduction 1 Water in the Earth system 2 Components of the global hydroclimate system 4 Atmosphere 5 Hydrosphere 8 Cryosphere 9 Lithosphere 9 Biosphere 10 Anthroposphere 10 Important points in this chapter 12 2 Water Vapor in the Atmosphere 14 Introduction 14 Latent heat 14 Atmospheric water vapor content 15 Ideal Gas Law 16 Virtual temperature 17 Saturated vapor pressure 18 Measures of saturation 20 Measuring the vapor pressure of air 21 Important points in this chapter 23 3 Vertical Gradients in the Atmosphere 25 Introduction 25 Hydrostatic pressure law 26 Adiabatic lapse rates 27 Dry adiabatic lapse rate 27 Moist adiabatic lapse rate 28 Environmental lapse rate 28 Vertical pressure and temperature gradients 29 Potential temperature 30 Virtual potential temperature 31 Atmospheric stability 32 Static stability parameter 32 Important points in this chapter 34 4 Surface Energy Fluxes 36 Introduction 36 Latent and sensible heat fluxes 37 Energy balance of an ideal surface 38 Net radiation, Rn 38 Latent heat flux, ¿ E 39 Sensible heat flux, H 39 Soil heat flux, G 39 Physical energy storage, S t 40 Biochemical energy storage, P 40 Advected energy, Ad 41 Flux sign convention 41 Evaporative fraction and Bowen ratio 45 Energy budget of open water 46 Important points in this chapter 46<...
