Fluid mechanics of environmental interfaces

Preface Preface of the first editionBiographies of the authors Part one - Preliminaries1. Environmental fluid mechanics: Current issues and future outlook B. Cushman-Roisin, C. Gualtieri & D.T. MihailovicPart two - Processes at atmospheric interfaces2. Point source atmospheric diffusionB. Rajkovic, I. Arsenic & Z. Grsic3. Air-sea interaction V. Djurdjevic & B. Rajkovic4. Modelling of flux exchanges between heterogeneous surfaces and atmosphere D.T. Mihailovic & D. Kapor5. Desert dust uptake-transport and deposition mechanisms - impacts of dust on radiation, clouds and precipitation G. Kallos, P. Katsafados & C. SpyrouPart three - Processes at water interfaces6. Gas-transfer at unsheared free-surfaces C. Gualtieri & G. Pulci Doria7. Advective diffusion of air bubbles in turbulent water flows H. Chanson8. Exchanges at the bed sediments-water column interface F.A. Bombardelli & P.A. Moreno9. Surface water and streambed sediment interaction: The hyporheic exchange D. Tonina10. Environmental fluid dynamics of tidal bores: Theoretical considerations and field observations H. ChansonPart four - Processes at interfaces of biotic systems11. Transport processes in the soil-vegetation-lower atmosphere system D.T. Mihailovic12. Turbulence and wind above and within the forest canopy B. Lalic & D.T. Mihailovic13. Flow and mass transport in vegetated surface waters Y. Tanino14. Uniform flow and boundary layers over rigid vegetation P. Gualtieri & G. Pulci Doria15. Mass transport in aquatic environments G. Nishihara & J.D. Ackerman16. Maps serving as the combined coupling between interacting environmental interfaces and their behavior in the presence of dynamical noise D.T. Mihailovic & I. BalažAuthor index Subject index.