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Author Brutsaert, Wilfried, 1934-
Title Hydrology : an introduction / Wilfried Brutsaert.
Publisher Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Descript xi, 605 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The hydrologic cycle -- Some estimates of the global water balance -- Methodologies and procedures -- Conservation laws: the equations of motion -- Water in the atmosphere -- Water aloft: fluid mechanics of the lower atmosphere -- Water vapor in air -- Hydrostatics and atmospheric stability -- Turbulent transport of water vapor -- The atmospheric boundary layer -- Turbulence similarity -- Surface boundary condition: the energy budget constraint -- Precipitation -- Formation of precipitation -- Major precipitation weather systems -- Precipitation distribution on the ground -- Interception -- Reliability of operational precipitation measurements -- Evaporation -- Evaporation mechanisms -- Mass transfer formulations -- Energy budget and related formulations -- Water budget methods -- Evaporation climatology -- Water on the surface -- Water on the land surface: fluid mechanics of free surface flow -- Free surface flow -- Hydraulic theory: shallow water equations -- Friction slope -- General considerations and some features of free surface flow -- Overland flow -- The standard formulation -- Kinematic wave approach -- Lumped kinematic approach -- Streamflow routing -- Two extreme cases of large flood wave propagation -- A lumped kinematic approach: the Muskingum method -- Estimation of the Muskingum parameters -- Water below the surface -- Water beneath the ground: fluid mechanics in porous materials -- Porous materials -- Hydrostatics of pore-filling water in the presence of air -- Water transport in a porous material -- Field equations of mass and momentum conservation -- Infiltration and related unsaturated flows -- General features of the infiltration phenomenon -- Infiltration in the absence of gravity: sorption -- Infiltration capacity -- Rain infiltration -- Catchment-scale infiltration and other "losses" -- Capillary rise and evaporation at the soil surface -- Groundwater outflow and base flow -- Flow in an unconfined riparian aquifer -- Free surface flow: a first approximation -- Hydraulic groundwater theory: a second approximation -- Linearized hydraulic groundwater theory: a third approximation -- Kinematic wave in sloping aquifers: a fourth approximation -- Catchment-scale base flow parameterizations -- Flows at the catchment scale in response to precipitation -- Streamflow generation: mechanisms and parameterization -- Riparian areas and headwater basins -- Storm runoff mechanisms in riparian areas -- Summary of mechanisms and parameterization options -- Streamflow response at the catchment scale -- Stationary linear response: the unit hydrograph -- Identification of linear response functions -- Stationary nonlinear lumped response -- Non-stationary linear response -- Elements of frequency analysis in hydrology -- Random variables and probability -- Summary descriptors of a probability distribution function -- Some probability distributions for discrete variables -- Some probability distributions for continuous variables -- Extension of available records -- Afterword - a short historical sketch of theories about the water circulation on Earth -- Earliest concepts: the atmospheric water cycle -- Greek antiquity -- The Latin era -- From philosophy to science by experimentation -- Some useful mathematical concepts -- Differentiation of an integral -- The general response of a linear stationary system -- The general response of a nonlinear system.
Local Note MARCIVE (2022/12/12)
Subject Hydrology.
Hydrologie.
ISBN 0521824796
9780521824798
0521531861
9780521531863








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