Hydrology : An Introduction (Hardcover)

Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Water aloft: fluid mechanics of the lower atmosphere; 3. Precipitation; 4. Evaporation; 5. Water on the land surface: fluid mechanics of free surface flow; 6. Overland flow; 7. Streamflow routing; 8. Water beneath the ground: fluid mechanics of flow in porous materials; 9. Infiltration and related unsaturated flows; 10. Groundwater outflow and base flow; 11. Streamflow generation: mechanisms and parameterization; 12. Streamflow response at the catchment scale; 13. Elements of frequency analysis in hydrology; 14. Afterword - a short historical sketch of theories about the water circulation on earth; Appendix.