Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems
Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems is a primer on using models to understand environmental problems. With their many natural, economic, political, and technical aspects, environmental problems require a systems approach. This book provides an intro
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MODELING DYNAMIC SYSTEMS Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems Bruce Hannon and Matthias Ruth Modeling Dynamic Economic Systems Matthias Ruth and Bruce Hannon Dynamic Modeling in the Health Sciences James L Hargrove Modeling and Simulation in Science and Mathematics Education Wallace Feurzeig and Nancy Roberts, Editors Dynamic Modeling of Enviromnental Systems Michael L Deaton and James J. Winebrake Dynamic Modeling, Second Edition Bruce Hannon and Matthias Ruth Modeling Dynamic Climate Systems Walter A. Robinson Dynamic Modeling for Marine Conservation Matthias Ruth and James Lindholm, Editors Dynamic Modeling for Business Management: An Introduction Bernard McGarvey and Bruce Hannon Landscape Simulation Modeling: A Spatially Explicit, Dynamic Approach Robert Costanza and Alexey Voinov, Editors
Michael L. Deaton James J. Winebrake
Dynamic Modeling of Environmental
Systems
With 87 IUustrations and a CD-ROM
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Michael L. Deaton James J. Winebrake Integrated Science and Technology Program James Madison University Harrisonburg, V A 22807 USA Serie. Editor.: Matthias Ruth School of Public Alfairs University of Maryland 3139 Van Munching HaU College Park, MD 20742 USA
Bruce Hannon Department of Geography 220 Davenport HaU, MC 150 University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Couer Photograph: The cover Image represents the 8urface wind over the Pacific Ocean, with North and South America at the right. The arrow. show wlnd direction and the colors represent wind speed. Blue indicate. wind speeds of 1-4 mcters/second; gray, 4-6 meters/second; red, 6-16 m.,.. ters/second; and yellow, 16-20 meters/second. Courtesy of NASA. The CD-ROM contain. the run·time verslon of the STELLA software. STELLA" software 1987,1988, 1990-98 by High Performance Systems, Inc. AU rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging·in-Publication Data
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Deaton, Michael L. Dynamic modeIing of environmental .ystem. / Michael L. Deaton, James J. Winebrake. p. cm. - (Modeling dynamic systems) Include. bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4612-7085-0 ISBN 978-1-4612-1300-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-1300-0 1. EnvironmentaI sciences-Computer simulation. 2. EnvironmentaI sciences-Mathematical modela. 1. Winebrake, James J. II. Tltle. III. Series. GE45.D37D43 1999 628-dc21 99-15368 Additional material to this book can be downloaded rrom http://extra.springer.com
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e 2000 Springer Science+Business Media New York
Originally published by Springer-Verlag New Yorkin 2000 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 18t edition 2000 AH rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied In whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brlef excerpts in connection with review. or scholarly analysis. Use in connectlon with any form of Information storage and retrieval, electronic adapta. tion, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter devel· oped ia
