Product Description: In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of acknowledged experts fully intergrate the physical, chemical, and biological sciences to provide a complete understanding of the interrelationships between snow structure and life. This volume opens a new perspecitve on snow cover as a habitat for organisms under extreme environmental conditions and as a key factor in the ecology of much of the Earth's surface...read more

Product Description: Soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions determine, to a large extent, the global climate and the behaviour of the hydrological cycle. Several key issues in soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer (SVAT) models are poorly parameterized or simply not well enough understood...read more