Environmental Modeling: Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Water, Air, and Soil / Edition 1

by Jerald L. Schnoor

Overview

A comprehensive, thoroughly modern approach to environmental quality assessment

The only textbook to combine engineering transport fundamentals and equilibrium aquatic chemistry, Environmental Modeling brings a uniquely contemporary perspective to the assessment of environmental quality. Addressing key questions about fate, transport, and long-term effects of chemical pollutants in the environment, this inherently practical text gives readers the important tools they need to develop and solve their own mathematical models.

Contains detailed examples from a wide range of crucial water quality areas-conventional pollutants in rivers, eutrophication of lakes, and toxic organic chemicals and heavy metals in both surface and groundwaters

Examines current global issues, including atmospheric deposition, hazardous wastes, soil pollution, global change, and more

Features over 200 high-quality illustrations, plus skill-building problems in every chapter

Fresh in approach and broad in scope, Environmental Modeling is must reading for today's graduate and advanced undergraduate students in environmental sciences and engineering-a rich, invaluable, and superlative new resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471124368
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/04/1996
Series:	Environmental Science and Technology: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Textsand Monographs , #106
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 9.06(h) x 1.65(d)

About the Author

Jerald L. Schnoor, PhD, PE, DEE, is Foundation Distin-guished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. The author of numerous books and journal articles, Dr. Schnoor has been Codirector of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa since 1991, and is Coeditor of the Wiley-Interscience Series in Environmental Science and Technology.

Table of Contents

Transport Phenomena.

Chemical Reaction Kinetics.

Equilibrium Chemical Modeling.

Eutrophication of Lakes.

Conventional Pollutants in Rivers.

Toxic Organic Chemicals.

Modeling Trace Metals.

Groundwater Contamination.

Atmospheric Deposition and Biogeochemistry.

Global Change and Global Cycles.

Appendices.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

An introductory text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in environmental sciences and engineering, combining engineering transport fundamentals with equilibrium aquatics and addressing the fate, transport, and long-term effects of chemical pollutants in the environment. Contains detailed examples from a range of water quality areas, and examines current global issues such as atmospheric deposition and global change. Prerequisites include courses in environmental chemistry, physiochemical processes, and calculus through differential equations. Includes chapter problems and answers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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