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Providing the basic framework for investigating global change and its implications for life on Earth, Biogeochemical Cycles is a comprehensive and accessible examination of this complex and fascinating subject. The opening chapters present the scientific and mathematical fundamentals needed for the study of biogeochemical cycles, such as chemical thermodynamics and differential equations. The remaining chapters investigate the global cycles of the five key nutrient elements -- P, C, N, S, and O -- and examine their mathematical and computer model simulations. The text emphasizes techniques for finding and organizing data on the distribution of elements in the Earth system (including the estimation of missing data), the rational development of box models of biogeochemical cycles, and the uses and limitations of linear numerical models to simulate inherently nonlinear biogeochemical cycles. To give student hands-on experience, the authors have developed a DOS-based computer program entitled BOXES. This program, included with the book, offers a user-friendly environment for constructing numerical models of biogeochemical cycles and avoids detailed numerics. An invaluable teaching tool, BOXES allows students and professors to work interactively in the classroom as each of the cycles is explored, and gives students the opportunity to develop their own scenarios for global change outside the classroom.
About the Author
William L. Chameides and E. M. Perdue are both at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Providing the basic framework for investigating global change and its implications for life on Earth, Biogeochemical Cycles is a comprehensive and accessible examination of this complex and fascinating subject. The opening chapters present the scientific and mathematical fundamentals needed for the study of biogeochemical cycles, such as chemical thermodynamics and differential equations. The remaining chapters investigate the global cycles of the five key nutrient elements -- P, C, N, S, and O -- and examine their mathematical and computer model simulations. The text emphasizes techniques for finding and organizing data on the distribution of elements in the Earth system (including the estimation of missing data), the rational development of box models of biogeochemical cycles, and the uses and limitations of linear numerical models to simulate inherently nonlinear biogeochemical cycles. To give student hands-on experience, the authors have developed a DOS-based computer program entitled BOXES. This program, included with the book, offers a user-friendly environment for constructing numerical models of biogeochemical cycles and avoids detailed numerics. An invaluable teaching tool, BOXES allows students and professors to work interactively in the classroom as each of the cycles is explored, and gives students the opportunity to develop their own scenarios for global change outside the classroom.
About the Author
William L. Chameides and E. M. Perdue are both at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 18 books | 1 book that cites this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: abiotic nitrogen fixation, gypsum burial, global oxygen cycle, metastable boundaries, biota reservoir (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: New York, Text Box, Climate Change, University of Biogeochemistry, Cambridge University Press (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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Virtually every biologically mediated chemical reaction on earth relates in some way to a biogeochemical cycle and ultimately to our species. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
abiotic nitrogen fixation, gypsum burial, global oxygen cycle, metastable boundaries, biota reservoir, gross primary production rate, gypsum sediments, oceanic biosphere, surface ocean productivity, marine geochemists, reservoir amounts, airborne fraction, ocean biota, oceanic biota, reservoir contents, atmospheric reservoir, terrestrial biosphere, major nutrient elements, preindustrial conditions, biogeochemical reactions, rock cycle, charge balance equation, anthropogenic perturbations, global biogeochemical cycles, marine biosphere Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Text Box, Climate Change, University of Biogeochemistry, Cambridge University Press, First Law, Academic Press, Intergovernmental Panel, Northern Hemisphere, Scientific American, Years Figure, Compounds Oxidized, Electron Configuration, Englewood Cliffs, Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fulton County, San Francisco, Southern Hemisphere, American Scientist, Los Altos, Preliminary Step, Standard Model, The Ages of Gaia New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt |
Virtually every biologically mediated chemical reaction on earth relates in some way to a biogeochemical cycle and ultimately to our species. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
abiotic nitrogen fixation, gypsum burial, global oxygen cycle, metastable boundaries, biota reservoir, gross primary production rate, gypsum sediments, oceanic biosphere, surface ocean productivity, marine geochemists, reservoir amounts, airborne fraction, ocean biota, oceanic biota, reservoir contents, atmospheric reservoir, terrestrial biosphere, major nutrient elements, preindustrial conditions, biogeochemical reactions, rock cycle, charge balance equation, anthropogenic perturbations, global biogeochemical cycles, marine biosphere Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Text Box, Climate Change, University of Biogeochemistry, Cambridge University Press, First Law, Academic Press, Intergovernmental Panel, Northern Hemisphere, Scientific American, Years Figure, Compounds Oxidized, Electron Configuration, Englewood Cliffs, Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fulton County, San Francisco, Southern Hemisphere, American Scientist, Los Altos, Preliminary Step, Standard Model, The Ages of Gaia New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt |