Dynamic hydrology / [by] Peter S. Eagleson
- Author
- Eagleson, Peter S.
- Published
- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1970].
- Physical Description
- xvi, 462 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
- Contents
- THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE: An engineering representation -- The global water budget -- The engineering problem -- TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS: Conduction -- Convection -- Radiation physics -- Shortwave radiation -- Longwave radiation -- Radiation measurement -- PHYSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE: Structural groupings -- Constituents -- Profile of the troposphere -- Atmospheric moisture -- Pseudoadiabatic processes -- PHYSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE OCEANS AND LAKES: Chemical composition of seawater -- Physical properties -- The mechanism for vertical heat -- ENERGY BALANCE OF THE EARTH: Heating and cooling of the earth -- Oceanic heat flow -- A LITTLE PLANETARY FLUID DYNAMICS: Velocity and acceleration in a moving coordinate system -- Specialization for fluid motion on the earth's surface -- CIRCULATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE: Observational description of the general circulation -- Equations of motion -- Conservation conditions -- Energy transformations -- Description of the predominant disturbances -- Physical and numerical models -- GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEANS: Primary currents -- Secondary currents -- CLIMATIC VARIABILITY -- PRECIPITATION: Requisites for precipitation -- Mechanisms for cooling -- Nucleation phenomena in cloud formation -- Nuclei in the atmosphere -- Growth of water droplets and ice crystals -- Rainfall -- Snowfall -- Precipitation induction by cloud seeding -- Precipitation measurement -- The stochastic nature of point precipitation records -- Storm structure -- Time distribution of point-storm precipitation -- Topographic effects on precipitation -- Areal variation of storm rainfall -- Maximum rainfall -- Geographical distribution of precipitation -- Interception -- EVAPORATION AND TRANSPIRATION: Evaporation from saturated surfaces -- Transpiration -- Potential evapotranspiration -- Evaporation from dry, cropped surfaces -- Consumptive use -- Sublimation -- Reduction of water loss -- Instrumentation -- SNOWMELT: Structure of snowpack -- Thermal properties of snowpack -- Snowpack heat capacity -- Snowpack thermal quality -- Snowpack Liquid-water content -- Snowpack heat budget -- Combined radiational melt -- Condensation melt and sublimation -- Convective transfer melt -- Conduction melt -- Advection melt -- INFILTRATION AND GROUNDWATER FLOW: Conservation of mass -- Equations of motion -- Permeability coefficients -- Summary of steady, incompressible flow Equations -- Summary of unsteady flow equations -- Hydraulic properties of the porous media -- Infiltration and capillary rise -- Percolation -- Evaporation from bare soil -- Equations for groundwater flows -- Growth of a groundwater mound -- Damping of a groundwater mound -- The coupling of groundwater and streamflow -- Measurements -- SURFACE RUNOFF AND STREAMFLOW: Equations of motion -- Simplification of equations -- Some special cases -- Overland flow-- Effect of infiltration on overland flow -- Subsurface components of runoff -- Effective catchment parameters -- Flow in small streams -- Solution for flow in small streams with tr < tc -- Flow in streams of higher order -- Flood routing -- Measurements -- THE CATCHMENT: Definition of runoff systems -- Characterization of the channel network -- Catchment planform -- Structure of the channel network -- Catchment relief -- Morphological indices of hydrologic behavior.
- Subject(s)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographies.
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