Hydrology : an introduction

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Brutsaert, Wilfried, 1934-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN0521824796
9780521824798
0521531861
9780521531863
9781615832217
1615832211
9780511808470
051180847X
1107264057
9781107264052
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 605 pages) : illustrations

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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.