Microclimate for Cultural Heritage : Conservation, Restoration, and Maintenance of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments

__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. * Presents updated scientific and technological findings based on the novel European standards on microclimate and cultural heritage * Includes the latest information on experimental research on environmental factors and their impact on materials, such as the behavior of water and its interactions with cultural heritage materials * Contains case studies of outdoor and indoor microclimate conditions and their effects, providing ideas for readers facing similar problems caused by heat, water, radiation, pollution, or air motions * Covers instruments and methods for practical applications to help readers understand, to observe and interpret observations, and avoid errors

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.

• Presents updated scientific and technological findings based on the novel European standards on microclimate and cultural heritage
• Includes the latest information on experimental research on environmental factors and their impact on materials, such as the behavior of water and its interactions with cultural heritage materials
• Contains case studies of outdoor and indoor microclimate conditions and their effects, providing ideas for readers facing similar problems caused by heat, water, radiation, pollution, or air motions
• Covers instruments and methods for practical applications to help readers understand, to observe and interpret observations, and avoid errors

Content: Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv Preface to the First Edition (1998) , Pages xi-xii Preface to the Second Edition (2014) , Page xiii Foreword to the First Edition (1998) , Pages xv-xvi Reviews to the First Edition (1998) , Pages xvii-xx Foreword , Pages xxi-xxii Acknowledgments , Pages xxiii-xxiv Credits , Pages xxv-xxviii The Author , Pages xxix-xxx Chapter 1 - Microclimate, Air and Temperature , Pages 3-47 Chapter 2A - Theoretical Grounds for Humidity , Pages 49-76 Chapter 2B - Humidity and Conservation , Pages 77-118 Chapter 3 - Parameters to Describe Air Masses and Vertical Motions , Pages 119-130 Chapter 4 - Radiation and Light , Pages 131-164 Chapter 5 - Physics of Drop Formation and Micropore Condensation , Pages 165-201 Chapter 6 - Atmospheric Water and Stone Weathering , Pages 203-243 Chapter 7 - Atmospheric Stability and Pollutant Dispersion , Pages 245-282 Chapter 8 - Dry Deposition of Airborne Particulate Matter: Mechanisms and Effects , Pages 283-346 Chapter 9 - Consequences of the Maxwell–Boltzmann Distribution , Pages 347-366 Chapter 10 - Introduction to Field Measurements , Pages 369-394 Chapter 11 - Measuring Temperature , Pages 395-432 Chapter 12 - Measuring Humidity , Pages 433-469 Chapter 13 - Measuring Wind and Indoor Air Motions , Pages 471-491 Chapter 14 - Measuring Rainfall and Wind-Borne Droplets , Pages 493-504 Appendix 1 - List of Fundamental Constants Met in This Book , Pages 505-506 Appendix 2 - Summary of Key Equations to Calculate Humidity Variables , Pages 507-509 Appendix 3 - Essential Glossary , Pages 511-513 Relevant Objects, Museums, Monuments etc Exemplified in Figures , Pages 515-518 Index , Pages 519-526