Soil Physics With Python: Transport in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System - Couverture rigide

Bittelli, Marco; Campbell, Gaylon S.; Tomei, Fausto

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199683093 ISBN 13 : 9780199683093

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Soil Physics With Python: Transport In The Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System BY Marco Bittelli, Gaylon S. Campbell, And Fausto Tomei, Oxford University Press, Hardcover, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

This book aims to provide solutions to problems in soil physics through original programs written in the programming language Python. (David L. Hawksworth, Biodiversity and Conservation)

... the authors have rendered an extremely valuable service to the soil physics community with the publication of this nicely written and appealingly presented text, which I wholeheartedly recommend to soil physics students of all ages ... great book. (Philippe C. Baveye, Vadose Zone Journal)

The combination of theory and computer code make this a unique text and reference book for experienced scientists and students alike. (Markus Flury, Professor of Soil Physics and Vadose Zone Hydrology, Washington State University, USA)

Soil Physics with Python puts a wealth of knowledge about the quantitative functioning of a key environmental system, soils, into the reader's hand. This knowledge is readily operational through the provided code for the widely used open source language Python. The solutions cover a range of important processes, including the transfer of water, solutes, heat, and gases within soils as well as the soil-atmosphere coupling. Maybe most importantly, they entice the reader to expand and adapt the provided solutions and thereby capacitate him or her to implement and independently explore concepts of the still challenging soil physical processes. (Kurt Roth, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany)

...Overall, I believe that the authors have rendered an extremely valuable service to the soil physics community with the publication of this nicely written and appealingly presented text, which I wholeheartedly recommend to soil physics students of all ages. I will definitely not hesitate to use it as a textbook in my own courses. If this great book were adopted widely, it would help train a new generation of soil physicists armed with a very solid understanding of what it really means to use computers to describe soil physical processes, and who would not be at the mercy of commercial software developers to satisfy their computational needs. At this stage, soil physics desperately needs such skilled people to move forward. (Professor Philippe Baveye, AgroParisTech, Paris)

Biographie de l'auteur

Marco Bittelli received his degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Bologna, Italy, as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Soil Physics from Washington State University, USA. He spent a year as a postdoctoral scientist in the Physics Department at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He now teaches courses in soil physics, hydrological modelling, and scientific methods at the undergraduate and graduate level, at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is a referee for the National Science Foundation, USA, and he also serves as a reviewer for international journals. He is the author and the coauthor of 40 journal papers, 3 book chapters, and over 50 papers in conference proceedings. Gaylon S. Campbell received a B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Soil Physics from Utah State University, USA; and a Ph.D. in Soil Physics from Washington State University, USA. He served as Captain, U.S. Army, doing meteorological research at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. He was Professor of Soils and Biophysics at Washington State University, USA, from 1971 to 1998. He has been Vice President, Engineer, and Senior Scientist at Decagon Devices, Inc., from 1998 to the present. He has written 3 books, over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and has several patents. Fausto Tomei received a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is a researcher at the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy. His research focuses on numerical analysis of hydrological processes and software development. He is the author and the coauthor of 10 journal papers, 1 book, 2 book chapters, and over 30 papers in conference proceedings. He has worked on several Italian and European projects, on climate change, soil hydrology and agriculture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0199683093
• ISBN 13: 9780199683093
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 460