Full Description
Microclimate for Cultural Heritage: Conservation and Restoration of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments, Second Edition, is a cutting-edge, theoretical, and practical handbook concerning microclimate, environmental factors, and conservation of cultural heritage. Although the focus is on cultural heritage objects, most of the theory and instrumental methodologies are common to other fields of application, such as atmospheric and environmental sciences.
Microclimate for Cultural Heritage, Second Edition, is a useful treatise on microphysics and a practical handbook for conservators and specialists in physics, chemistry, architecture, engineering, geology, and biology who work in the multidisciplinary field of the environment, and, in particular, in the conservation of works of art. Part I, devoted to applied theory, is a concise treatise on microphysics, which includes a survey on the basic ideas of environmental diagnosis and conservation. The second part of the book focuses on practical utilization, and shows in detail how field surveys should be performed, with many suggestions and examples, as well as some common errors to avoid.
Contents
1. Microclimate, Air and Temperature2A. Theoretical grounds for Humidity2B. Humidity and Conservation3. Parameters to Describe Air Masses and Vertical Motions4. Radiation and Light5. Physics of Drop Formation and Micropore Condensation6. Atmospheric Water and Stone Weathering7. Atmospheric Stability and Pollutant Dispersion8. Dry Deposition of Airborne Particulate Matter: Mechanisms and Effects9. Consequences of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution10. Introduction to Field Measurements11. Measuring Temperature12. Measuring Humidity13. Measuring Wind and Indoor Air Motions14. Measuring Rainfall and Windborne Droplets Appendix 1. List of fundamental constants met in this bookAppendix 2. Summary of key equations to calculate humidity variablesAppendix 3. ESSENTIAL GLOSSARYRelevant Objects, Museums, Monuments etc exemplified in Figures
