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Contents
Chapter 3 Water Vapor and Other Gases
37
3.1 Specifying Gas Concentration
3 8
3.2 Water Vapor: Saturation Conditions
40
3.3 Condition of Partial Saturation
42
3.4 Spatial and Temporal Variation of Atmospheric Water
Vapor
47
3.5 Estimating the Vapor Concentration in Air
49
References
50
Problems
50
Chapter 4 Liquid Water in Organisms and their Environment 53
4.1 Water Potential and Water Content
4.2 Water Potentials in Organisms and their Surroundings
4.3 Relation of Liquid- to Gas-Phase Water
References
Problems
Chapter 5 Wind
5.1 Characteristics of Atmospheric Twbulence
5.2 Wind as a Vector
5.3 Modeling the Variation in Wind Speed
5.4 Finding the Zero Plane Displacement and the
Roughness Length
5.5 Wind Within Crop Canopies
References
Problems
Chapter 6 Heat and Mass Transport
6.1 Molar Fluxes
6.2 Integration of the Transport Equations
6.3 Resistances and Conductances
6.4 Resistors and Conductors in Series
6.5 Resistors in Parallel
6.6 Calculation of Fluxes
Problems
Chapter 7 Conductances for Heat and Mass Transfer
7.1 Conductances for Molecular Diffusion
7.2 Molecular Diffusivities
7.3 Diffusive Conductance of the Integument
7.4 Turbulent Transport
7.5 Fetch and Buoyancy
7.6 Conductance of the Atmospheric Surface Layer
7.7 Conductances for Heat and Mass Transfer in
Laminar Forced Convection
7.8 Cylinders, Spheres and Animal Shapes
7.9 Conductances in Free Convection