Environmental hydraulics. volume 1, Physical processes and measurement devices /
This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main measurement devices used to measure the main parameters that are...
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| Language: | English |
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London : Hoboken, N.J. :
Iste ; Wiley,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; PART 1. FLOODS AND CLIMATE CHANGE; Chapter 1. Presentation of the Environmental Hydraulics Treatise; Chapter 2. Flooding and Natural Disasters; Chapter 3. Climate Change and Hydrology; PART 2. HYDROMETEOROLOGY; Chapter 4. Formation of Clouds and Rain; Chapter 5. Evapotranspiration; Chapter 6. Runoff; Chapter 7. Drainage Basin; Chapter 8. Statistical and Semi-Empirical Hydrology. Rain andFlow Analysis; PART 3. HYDRAULICS AND RIVER; Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Free-Surface Flow; Chapter 10. Generation and Propagation of Floods in Urban Areas.
- Chapter 11. Quality of Surface WatersChapter 12. Transport of Sediments
- Bedload and Suspension; Chapter 13. Fluvial Morphodynamics; Chapter 14. Typology of rivers and streams; PART 4. ESTUARY, SEA AND COASTLINE; Chapter 15. Estuaries; Chapter 16. The Tide; Chapter 17. Waves; Chapter 18. Storm and storm surge forecasts; Chapter 19. Coastal Zone; PART 5 NECESSARY DATA FOR THE MODELING TOOLS; Chapter 20. Introduction to Measuring Systems; Chapter 21. Measurement of the Meteorological Parameters Related to the Water Cycle; Chapter 22. Topographic and Bathymetric Data.
- Chapter23. Soils, Water and Water in SoilsChapter 24. Levels and Flowrates in Watercourses, Lakes and Reservoirs; Chapter 25. Water Quality Measurements; Chapter 26. Measuring Ice Cover Thickness; Chapter 27. Measurements in Fluvial Sedimentology; Chapter 28. Measurements in Urban Hydrology; Chapter 29. Measuring Currents, Swells and the Sea Level; Chapter 30. Sedimentological Measurements in a Coastal Environment; Chapter 31. New Technologies from Space; List of Authors; Index; General Index of Authors; Summary of Other Volumes in the Series.