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Readership: Undergraduates and beginning graduates studying physical hydrology as part of a physical geography, environmental science, earth sciences or civil engineering degree programme.
Martin Hendriks, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University
"a detailed and thorough review of the physical principles of hydrology... case studies and examples as 'boxes', and student exercises (along with the all important answers) makes this student textbook a useful addition to the literature available in this subject area. " - Dr Ian Maddock, Principal Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Worcester
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 some differentiation 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
