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Cover 1 Half-title Page 3 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Contents 7 Preface 13 1 Introduction 17 1.1 Ecohydrology 17 1.2 Water and Life 18 1.3 Water on Earth 19 1.4 The Hydrologic Cycle 19 1.5 The Soil Water Balance 23 1.6 Temporal Scales of Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics 25 1.7 Soil Moisture, Biogeochemistry, and Society 26 1.8 Key Points 29 1.9 Notes, including Problems and Further Reading 29 2 Physics Background for Ecohydrology 32 2.1 Review of Thermodynamics 32 2.1.1 The First Law of Thermodynamics 32 2.1.2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 33 2.1.3 Reversible Transformations 34 2.1.4 Open Systems: Enthalpy and Gibbs Electrochemical Potential 35 2.1.5 Extensivity and the Gibbs–Duhem Relationship 36 2.1.6 Ideal Gas 37 2.1.7 Incompressible Fluids 38 2.1.8 The Clausius–Clapeyron Equation 38 2.1.9 Properties of Water and Phase Changes 40 2.1.10 Atmospheric Air 41 2.1.11 Gravitational Field and Total Potential 46 2.1.12 Solutions and Osmotic Potential 47 2.1.13 Capillarity and Interface Phenomena 49 2.1.14 Total Water Potential 50 2.2 Dimensional Analysis and Similarity 51 2.2.1 Units of Measurements and Dimensions 51 2.2.2 Buckingham or Theorem 53 2.3 Turbulent Fluxes 54

Author

Amilcare Porporato and Jun Yin

Language

EN