Progress in modern hydrology : past, present and future

✍ Scribed by John C. Rodda, Mark Robinson

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hydrology is vital to human civilisations as well as to natural ecosystems, yet it has only emerged as a distinct scientific discipline during the last 50 years or so. This book reviews the development of modern hydrology primarily through the experiences of the multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Wallingford, near Oxford, who have been at the forefront of many of the developments in UK hydrological research. These topics include:

• The development of basic understanding through  the collection of data with specialised instrumentation in experimental basins
• The study of extreme flows – both floods and droughts
• The role moisture in the soil
• Studies of the processes controlling  evaporation
• Water resource studies
• Modelling and prediction of the extremes of flow improved
• Understanding of water quality issues
• A widening recognition of the importance of an ecosystem approach 
• Meeting the challenges of climate change,
• Data handling
• Future developments in hydrology and the pressures which generate them.

Readership: hydrologists in both academia and a wide range of applied fields such as civil engineering, meteorology, geography and physics, as well as advanced students in earth science, environmental science and physical geography programmes worldwide

✦ Table of Contents

Content: List of Contributors ix Chapter Reviewers xiii Foreword xv Preface xvii Acknowledgements xix Acronyms xxi 1 INTRODUCTION 1 John C. Rodda, Mark Robinson, Jim McCulloch, Christine McCulloch, Alan Jenkins, Terry Marsh, Celia Kirby, Ian Littlewood, Max Beran and Graham Leeks 2 BASIN STUDIES AND INSTRUMENTATION 23 Ian Strangeways, Mark Robinson, Jim Hudson, John C. Rodda, Malcolm Newson and David J. Cooper 3 RISKS AND EXTREMES 60 Lisa Stewart, Max Beran, Frank Farquharson, Duncan Faulkner, David Jones, Thomas Kjeldsen, Malcolm Newson, Enda O'Connell and John Sutcliffe 4 TERRESTRIAL HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES 100 David J. Cooper, John Bell, Martin Hodnett, Keith Beven, Kevin Gilman, Atul Haria, Cate Gardner, Mark Robinson, Jon Evans and Helen Ward 5 THE PHYSICS OF ATMOSPHERIC INTERACTION 135 Colin Lloyd and Sylvia Oliver 6 WATER RESOURCES SECURITY 183 Frank Farquharson, Max Beran, John Bromley, Alan Gustard, Helen Houghton-Carr, Gwyn Rees, John Sutcliffe and Andy Young 7 HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING 216 Keith Beven, James Bathurst, Enda O'Connell, Ian Littlewood, Jim Blackie and Mark Robinson 8 WATER QUALITY 240 Richard Williams, Colin Neal, Helen Jarvie, Andrew Johnson, Paul Whitehead, Mike Bowes and Alan Jenkins 9 ECOHYDROLOGY 267 Mike C. Acreman, James R. Blake, Laurence R. Carvalho, Mike J. Dunbar, Iain D. M. Gunn, Alan Gustard, Ian D. Jones, Cedric Laize, Stephen C. Maberly, Eleanor B. Mackay, Linda May, J. Owen Mountford, Bryan M. Spears, Charlie J. Stratford, Stephen J. Thackeray and Ian J. Winfield 10 CLIMATE CHANGE AND HYDROLOGY 302 Richard Harding, Nigel Arnell, Nick Reynard, Christel Prudhomme, Eleanor Blyth and Chris Taylor 11 HYDROLOGICAL DATA ACQUISITION AND EXPLOITATION 324 Terry Marsh, Roger Moore, Harry Dixon, Jamie Hannaford, Alan Gustard, Andy Young, Melinda Lewis, Colin Neal and Gwyn Rees 12 LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE 366 John C. Rodda, Mark Robinson, Alan Jenkins, Keith Beven, Max Beran and Graham Leeks Index 379

✦ Subjects

Institute of Hydrology (Great Britain) -- Research. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Great Britain) -- Research. Hydrology -- Research. SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Great Britain) Institute of Hydrology (Great Britain) Research.