Table of contents Preface VII Biographies of the authors XI 1.Environmental fluid mechanics: Current issues and future outlook 1 B. Cushman-Roisin, C. Gualtieri & D.T. Mihailovic Part one-Processes at atmospheric interfaces 2. Point source atmospheric diffusion 17 B. Rajkovic, I. Arsenic & Z. Grsic 3. Air-sea interaction 49 V. Djurdjevic & B. Rajkovic 4.Modelling of flux exchanges between heterogeneous surface and atmosphere 71 D. T. Mihailovic & D. Kapor 5.Desert dust uptake-transport and deposition mechanisms-impacts of dust on radiation, clouds and precipitation 97 G. Kallos & P. Katsafados Part two-Processes at water interfaces 6. Gas-transfer at unsheared free-surfaces 131 C. Gualtieri & G. Pulci Doria 1. Advective diffusion of air bubbles in turbulent water flows 163 H. Chanson Part three-Processes at interfaces ofbiotic systems 8. Transport processes in the soil-vegetation-lower atmosphere system 199 D. T. Mihailovic 9. Turbulence and wind above and within the forest canopy 221 B. Lalic &D.T. Mihailovic 10Boundary layer development over rigid submerged vegetation 241 P. Gualtieri & G. Pulci Doria 11.Mass transport in aquatic environments 299 G. Nishihara & J.Ackerman Author Index 327 Subject Index 329