Introduction to Physical Hydrology explores the principal rules that govern the flow of water by considering the four major types of water: atmospheric, ground, soil, and surface. It gives insights into the major hydrological processes, and shows how the principles of physical hydrology inform our understanding of climate and global hydrology. INDICE: 1: Introduction; 1.1: Major water types; 1.2: Hydrological cycle; 1.3: Drainage basin hydrological processes; 1.4: Water balance; 2: Atmospheric water; 2.1: Cloud formation; 2.2: Generation of precipitation; 2.3: Precipitation types; 2.4: Measuring precipitation; 2.5: Areal precipitation; 2.6: Evaporation types and measurement; 2.7: Estimating evaporation: Penman-Monteith;3: Groundwater; 3.1: Misconceptions; 3.2: Drilling a hole; 3.3: Bernoulli to the aid; 3.4: Aqui; 3.5: Effective infiltration velocity and infiltration rate; 3.6: The soil as a wet sponge; 3.7: Brothers in science: Darcy and Ohm; 3.8:Refracting the water; 3.9: Keep it simple and confined; 3.10: Continuity and its consequences; 3.11: Going Dutch; 3.12: Flow nets; 3.13: Groundwater flow regimes and systems; 3.14: Fresh and saline: Ghijben-Herzberg; 3.15: Groundwater hydraulics; 4: Soil water; 4.1: Negative water pressures; 4.2: Determining the total potential; 4.3: The soil as dry filter paper or a wet sponge; 4.4: The soil moisture characteristic; 4.5: Drying and wetting: hysteresis; 4.6: Unsaturated water flow; 4.7: Moving up: capillary rise and evaporation; 4.8: Moving down: infiltration and percolation; 4.9: Preferential flow; 5: Surface water; 5.1: Bernoulli revisited; 5.2: Measuring stage, water velocity and discharge; 5.3: Hydrograph analysis; 5.4: Conceptual rainfall-runoff models; 5.5: Variable source area hydrology; C Conceptual Toolkit; C1: If you can't do the math;C2: Mathematical differentiation and integration; C3: Quick reference to somedifferentiation rules; M Mathematics Toolboxes; M1: Confined aquifer: horizontal flow; M2: Unconfined aquifer: horizontal flow; M3: Leaky aquifer: inverse landscape; M4: Unconfined aquifer with recharge: canals with equal water levels; M5: Unconfined aquifer with recharge: streams with different water levels; M6: Confined aquifer: radial-symmetric flow; M7: Unconfined aquifer: radial-symmetric flow; M8: Derivation of the Richards equation; M9: Other forms of the Richards equation; M10: Open channel flow; A Answers to the exercises
- ISBN: 978-0-19-929684-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
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- Fecha Publicación: 21/01/2010
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