今天早上收到信，我们计算蒸散量的常用的公式-Penman-Monteith公式的作者Monteith去世。据说有一个知名的同行、朋友把他的书-环境物理作为Bible来阅读。我也认为这是最基础的理论书籍，不可不读。

 

Dear All
 
I was just informed by Mike Unsworth that Prof. John Monteith passed away on Friday in Edinburgh
 
His  achievements in environmental physics and micrometeorology over more than fifty years were vastly influential in establishing the foundations of many of the measurement and analysis techniques that are employed today. Sadly, his last few years were marred by an Alzheimers-type decline, but his work provides a lasting legacy of a remarkable man.
 
A short bio is available at
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Monteith
 
He influenced many of us through his pioneering textbook on the Principles of Environmental Physics and his pioneering measurements of water vapor and CO2 exchange between crops and the atmosphere, in addition to his fame and influence through deriving the so-called Penman Monteith equation.
 

For those interested in reading the highlights of Prof Monteith’s career I refer you to a paper by Gaylon Campbell
 
Campbell, G.S., 2000. Monteith symposium: topics in environmental physics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 104, 1-4.
 
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