A unified presentation of environmental model development, implementation, and testing

Integrated Environmental Modeling teaches model development, model implementation, and model testing skills in a unified manner, crosscutting the three "media" comprising environmental systems—air, water, and soil—by focusing on parallels and similarities between them, and introducing a new generation of multimedia models. No other single volume offers comprehensive coverage of chemical transport and fate in all three environmental media, including the resulting impacts on the biosphere and human health, with a focus on the fundamental processes underlying environmental modeling.

Integrated Environmental Modeling provides broad-based training in the development of pollutant transport and fate models in air, water, and soil, with a focus on five essential competencies:

• Understanding the fundamental process principles that govern contaminant transport and transformations in multimedia environments, emphasizing the parallels and links between different media
• Learning model development skills, starting from the simplest conceptual models and building more complex and realistic models that couple component process modules at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales of resolution
• Using statistical methods and data sources to estimate input parameters and characterize model sensitivity and uncertainty
• Gaining hands-on experience with computer-aided implementation and evaluation of fate and transport models using realistic case study examples
• Applying fate and transport models to evaluate pollutant interactions with the biosphere, particularly in human exposure modeling and health risk assessment

Complete with case studies, Integrated Environmental Modeling is a valuable, single-source tool for senior and graduate students in environmental science and engineering courses on pollutant transport, remediation, and risk assessment, and an essential reference text for professionals in industry, consulting, and government agencies responsible for environmental assessment and risk analysis.

A trio of US professors of environmental engineering focus on contaminant behavior in the triad of environmental media: air, water, and soil/subsurface systems. Texts for students in this field typically treat each media separately. This integrated approach not only facilitates single semester coverage, but also is more real world-oriented given the realities of ecological and human health risk assessment, hazardous waste management, and chemical regulations. The authors introduce transport basics, and computational methods for the development of pollutant transport and fate models. Ramaswami is at the U. of Colorado, Denver.
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A trio of US professors of environmental engineering focus on contaminant behavior in the triad of environmental media: air, water, and soil/subsurface systems. Texts for students in this field typically treat each media separately. This integrated approach not only facilitates single semester coverage, but also is more real world-oriented given the realities of ecological and human health risk assessment, hazardous waste management, and chemical regulations. The authors introduce transport basics, and computational methods for the development of pollutant transport and fate models. Ramaswami is at the U. of Colorado, Denver. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Integrated Environmental Modeling teaches environmental model development, implementation, and testing in a unified manner, applicable to all three natural media.

* Details the fundamentals of pollutant transport, including physical, chemical, toxicological, and legislative aspects of pollutant characterization.

* Includes practical guidelines showing when to use each different modeling approach, along with computer-aided implementation models like the Urban Airshed Model, an Vadose Leaching Model, and a subsurface model.

* Explains the statistical techniques needed to evaluate the effectiveness of each approach, with ample case studies.

Pollutants move into and through the three basic natural "media" (air, water, soil) in a variety of ways, and often move through one medium and into another. Integrated Environmental Modeling teaches environmental model development, implementation, and testing in a unified manner, applicable to all three natural media.

Dedication.

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

1. Introduction to Modeling the Transport and Transformation of Contaminants in the Environment.

2. Nature of Environmental Pollutants.

3. Intermedia Contaminant Transfer: Equilibrium Analysis.

4. Kinetics of Intermedia Pollutant Transfer.

5. Transport Fundamentals.

6. Overview of Numerical Methods in Environmental Modeling.

7. Overview of Probabilistic Methods and Tools for Modeling.

8. Models of Transport in Air.

9. Models of Transport in Soil and Groundwater.

10. Models of Transport in Surface Water.

11. Atmospheric Transformation and Loss Processes.

12. Modeling Chemical Transformations in Water.

13. Exposure and Risk Assessment.

14. Tools for Evaluation, Analysis, and Optimization of Environmental Models.

Bibliography.

Index.