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Hydrology : an introduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brutsaert, Wilfried, 1934-
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Hydrology.
Hydrologie.
Handbooks
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Water aloft: fluid mechanics of the lower atmosphere
  • Precipitation
  • Evaporation
  • Water on the land surface: fluid mechanics of free surface flow
  • Overland flow
  • Streamflow routing
  • Water beneath the ground: fluid mechanics of flow in porous materials
  • Infiltration and related unsaturated flows
  • Groundwater outflow and base flow
  • Streamflow generation: mechanisms and parameterization
  • Streamflow response at the catchment scale
  • Elements of frequency analysis in hydrology
  • Afterword
  • a short historical sketch of theories about the water circulation on earth.