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- Published: 1982
- Number of pages: 312 pages
- Format: PDF
- File Size: 8.09 MB
- Authors: W. Brutsaert
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The phenomenon of evaporation in the natural environment is of interest in various diverse disciplines. This book is an attempt to present a coherent and organized introduction to theoretical concepts and relationships useful in analyzing this phe nomenon, and to give an outline of their history and their application. The main objective is to provide a better understanding of evaporation, and to connect some of the approaches and paradigms, that have been developed in different disciplines concerned with this phenomenon. The book is intended for professional scientists and engineers, who are active in hydrology, meteorology, agronomy, oceanography, climatology and related environ mental fields, and who wish to study prevailing concepts on evaporation. At the same time, I hope that the book will be useful to workers in fluid dynamics, who want to become acquainted with applications to an important and interesting natural phenomenon. As suggested in its subtitle, the book consists of three major parts. The first, consisting of Chapters I and 2, gives a general ouline of the problem and a history of the theories of evaporation from ancient times through the end of the nineteenth century. This history is far from exhaustive, but it sket~hes the background and the ideas that led directly to the scientific revolution in Europe and, ultimately, to our present-day knowledge.
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⭐Wilfried Brutsaert has the very impressive ability and understanding to visualize the complexities and physics of the evaporation processes and to describe them quantitatively. The book, even though it is dated, is still current in its theory. It is a must have reference for the serious student of evaporation processes from water and vegetation. It is useful for the physicist, the engineer, and the biometeorologist.The text is well written and friendly and with lots of figures and graphs showing real world data. Even though the text is friendly, it is so full and concise, that it takes the first timer several readings to garner all of the information stored there.The first portion of the book presents an interesting history of some of the quantitative developments in predicting evaporation.
⭐A disclaimer: this book was written by my major professor, so I may be a little bias.This text is the foremost authority on evaporation and boundary layer meteorology. One thing that I enjoy about Professor Brutsaert’s style is the historical context in which many lectures are delivered. In fact, the second chapter of this book is about the history of evaporation science. It continues to cover topics such as atmospheric stability, bulk transfer, Monin-Obukov, as well as the references and in-depth explanation. Then there is a great deal of text (as it should) spent on energy fluxes and measurement.In case you still think that this is bias, every grad student office (studying the ABL) that I have visited as a graduate student, here at Cornell, and at other institutions, has had a copy of this book.
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