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An comprehensive working reference, Watershed Hydrology begins with an overview of the hydrologic cycle and examines the basic concepts of storage in that cycle. The well-organized chapters cover topics such as: water and energy, storage of water in the atmosphere, water in the vegetative zone, water in the terrasphere (soil), water in the hydrosphere, and watershed management. ... Read more

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This introduction to hydrology is essentially practical, emphasising the application of hydrological knowledge to the solution of engineering problems. ... Read more

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Ground-Water Hydrology and Hydraulics by David B. McWhorter and Daniel K. Sunada is an outgrowth of a course in groundwater hydrology and hydraulics taught for seniors and first-year graduate students in agricultural and chemical engineering, civil engineering, geology, and wateshed science. This book, designed primarily as a textbook, has become a successful staple for many university courses dealing with this subject. The emphasis on basic physical and mathematical concepts have proven to be useful to professional hydrologists and hydrogeologists. A solid background in fundamentals and a thorough understanding of ground-water phenomena in idealized cases contributes immeasurably to imaginative and successful analysis, synthesis, and solution of field problems.

Special Features: Contains 52 example problems illustrating applications and extensions of material in the text. There are a total of 145 problems and study questions. Answers are provided to more than 60 of the problems in the book. ... Read more

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A good text to introduce groundwater hydraulics
This is a very good text to introduce groundwater hydraulics. The book start by the basic definitions, goes to Darcy's law and then guides the reader through the derivations of the different equations that govern thegroundwater hydraulics. The book also provide very useful examples on howto apply these equations.The book is written in a tight readable stylethat makes it easy to follow both the logic and the math.I think that thestrength of the book lies in its many clear and well presented examples which in conjuction with the many useful exercises it contains, makes itvery useful to senior and graduate students.This book is NOT for thosewho are interested in the practice of groundwater, but rather the theory ofgroundwater hydraulics. ... Read more

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Why is groundwater the predominant drinking water source in Hawaii? Why are groundwater sources susceptible to pesticide contamination? How long does it take for water in the mountains to journey by land and underground passages to reach the coast? Answers to questions such as these are essential to understanding the principles of hydrology—the science of the movement, distribution, and quality of water—in Hawaii. Due to the humid tropical climate, surrounding ocean, volcanic earth, and high mountains, many hydrologic processes in the Islands are profoundly different from those of large continents and other climatic zones. Management of water, land, and environment must be informed by appropriate analyses, or communities and ecosystems face great uncertainty and may be at risk. The protection of groundwater, coastal waters, and streams from pollution and the management of flood hazards are also significant. This volume presents applications of hydrology to these! critical issues.

The authors begin by outlining fundamental hydrologic theories and the current general knowledge before expanding into a formal discussion specific to Hawaii and the distinctive elements and their interrelations under natural and human-influenced conditions. They include chapters on rainfall and climate, evaporation, groundwater, and surface runoff. Details on the quantification of hydrologic processes are available to those with more technical knowledge, but general readers with an interest in the topic—one of singular importance for the Hawaiian Islands—will find much in the volume that is timely and accessible. ... Read more

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The Clean Water Act, with its emphasis on storm water and sediment control in urban areas, has created a compelling need for information in small-catchment hydrology. Design Hydrology and Sedimentology for Small Catchments provides the basic information and techniques required for understanding and implementing design systems to control runoff, erosion, and sedimentation. It will be especially useful to those involved in urban and industrial planning anddevelopment, surface mining activities, storm water management, sediment control, and environmental management.
This class-tested text, which presents many solved problems throughout as well as solutions at the end of each chapter, is suitable for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses. In addition, practicing professionals will find it a valuable reference.
Anderson/Woessner: APPLIED GROUNDWATER MODELING (1992)
Shuirman/Slosson: FORENSIC ENGINEERING (1992)
de Marsily: QUANTITATIVE HYDROGEOLOGY (1986)
Selley: APPLIED SEDIMENTOLOGY, THIRD EDITION (1988)
Huyakorn: COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SUBSURFACE FLOW (1986)
Pinder: FINITE ELEMENT MODELING IN SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY (1977)

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* Covers major new improvements and state-of-the-art technologies in sediment control technology
* Provides in-depth information on estimating the impact of land-use changes on runoff and flood flows, as well as on estimating erosion and sediment yield from small catchments
* Presents superior coverage on design of flood and sediment detention ponds and design of runoff and sediment control measures ... Read more

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Excellent - best text on the subject...
Excellent text. This book is excellent for student use (undergraduate and graduate courses) as well as professional use. I highly recommend it for anyone analyzing and designing stormwater management systems, including erosion and sedimentation.

AGEN 468 BOOK
so far not a bad book...ask again at the end of the semester.

A tribute to Coach
As a student, I used this book in both undergraduate and graduate study.It presented the theory and pratical design of hydrology, erosion/sediment control and various other topics in a straight forward manner.Highermathematics are only presented in order to explain rationale behind theory. The material presented is the result of years of research by the foremostauthorities in sediment & erosion control.The methods and designs arepresently state-of-the-art.Furthermore, as an engineer, I find this bookan invaluable reference in my library and refer to it on a regular basis. ... Read more

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This book presents systematic, integrated A-to-Z coverage of state-of-the-art unsaturated zone hydrology. Multi-disciplinary in approach, it provides both a soil physics and an engineering approach to unsaturated zone hydrology. Coverage begins with the basic physical properties and the behavior of clays, and moves on to contaminant transport and other parameters such as spatial variability, scaling, and fractals in the earth sciences. KEY TOPICS: Details analytical solutions for seven analytical infiltration models. Provides a comprehensive description and equations for performing a detailed water balance used to size and design water-storage facilities, reclamation zones for waste-storage facilities, and other water-management facilities. Presents five analytical models for both deterministic and probabilistic solutions to liquid/vapor flow in the unsaturated zone -- including unique coverage of the derivation and use of a three-dimensional analytical solution for flow of NAPLs in the unsaturated zone. Presents eight analytical models to assess unsaturated zone contaminant levels which are permissible to regulators for protection of underlying ground water. Includes a detailed description of the current technology of site characterization and monitoring devices used in unsaturated zone research -- including illustrations, diagrams of connections, and advantages and disadvantages of each. Illustrates real-world problems typical of sites the authors have worked with during the last 10 years.A reference for practicing engineers and environmental law firms. ... Read more

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Splendid Text
Like calculus, unsaturated zone hydrology can only be made so easy. As a soils professor and instructor of this subject, I have waited for 20 years for a text of this sort to come along.It gives me the flexibility to teach both undergraduate and graduate classes.For the students there are many worked examples and for the instructors a great manual that you can order separately.I get the best of both worlds and the students have what is in my opinion, the finest text and reference in this field.Many kudos to the authors for a job well done!

Great text for both teaching and students
I was unable to attend a college in my area that offered an unsaturated zone hydrology or soil physics course.As a result, I purchased several books on the subject including those by Hillel, Jury, and Stephens.While they were useful, it was difficult to grasp the material within certain areas then, at the suggestion of a friend I purchased this book.I found it much easier to follow than other texts and very informative both as a study tool and a professional reference for instructors and consultants.

I must admit that the previous review from the skier guy in Denver kinda turned me off, but I bought the book anyway and have never regretted it.Actually, I was able to discuss some aspects with the authors and found their insights particularly useful.Without doubt the material is difficult, but it's laid out well here.I found the answered questions very useful before trying the additional questions to which no answers are given.

While the book is likely not perfect I can say to the guy from Denver that if you were lucky enough to take this class from the author then, kudos to you.Also, one thing I have learned is that it's extremely difficult to have as he put it "a decent and intense class" without a good text.My experience has been that the class generally follows the text.If one is poor, usually both are poor.

My recommendation is that this is a great text and one won't go wrong by purchasing it.In my opinion the best chapters are 1-3, 7-10, and 13, but that those are where my skills are concentrated and they are all well thought out and well written.The list of symbols is also very useful although quite lengthy as they include soil science, hydrology, and engineering symbols for the same areas.I didn't catch that at first.I really like the book compared to others I've studied.Best of all, it helped me master this area and gained me a $10k per year raise in my firm.

4.5 stars? You have got to be kidding me.
Without question, this book is useful to professional vadose zone scientists as a refrence. I'll even go so far as to say it's the least-bad unsaturated zone book on the market. It scores points for being comprehensive and thorough. The book also looks nice and has good diagrams. Many of us have it on our book shelves here at work. I find myself referring to it occasionally, years after I first studied the text in grad school.
BUT
After *extensive* study of this text, I hate it. It is very hard to follow for even the sharpest of grad students / hydrologists. For instance, the index of symbols has over 500 entries (thank god there is an index). I found the explanations to be "on a different level" from 95% of the audience of the book, which severely limits its usefulness. This is no "Freeze and Cherry" textbook. And no, I'm no dummy who got frustrated w/ the content and gave up on it - I took Dr. Tindall's unsaturated zone course, persevered, and recieved an A for my efforts.

Once again, the book is good for a refrence if you already know your unsaturated zone science, but forget trying to learn unsat zone hydrolgy from this text unless you have a great prof or 170 IQ. Looking at my book shelf, I have to put this text in the bottom 40%, 2 stars.

Well-prepared and well-presented summary of unsaturated zone
(...) Unsaturated Zone Hydrology for Scientists and Engineers was written from a multidisciplinary perspective.It was designed for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students with a wide range of backgrounds and interests.The book could be used in an introductory course that teaches the major processes in the unsaturated zone and the design of field experiments.It is also suitable for a more advanced course on modeling transport of water, air, solute, and heat in the unsaturated zone.

The book has an attractive cover with an artist’s rendition of the major processes that occur in the unsaturated zone beneath urban and rural areas.The images on the cover depict well the topics covered.The table of contents is easy to follow and quickly reveals that the book’s subject matter is presented in a logical order.Following the introduction, which includes a brief history of unsaturated zone hydrology, are chapters on the physical properties and characteristics of soils, the behavior of clay-water systems, and the energy status and chemical properties of water.These first few chapters provide an excellent foundation for subsequent ones on water flow (including both unsaturated and saturated zones) and the transport of heat, gas, and contaminants.The book contains another six chapters on topics ranging from soil remediation techniques to spatial variability, scaling, and fractals.A list of symbols is given in one of the appendices, which readers will find helpful.

Three aspects of the book I particularly like.First, questions are given at the end of many sections to test the student’s understanding of the material.Detailed answers to these questions are given at the end of each chapter, as well as additional questions that could be assigned to the students.Second, the book covers a wide range of topics, yet discusses them in sufficient detail to be useful as both a teaching aid and a reference book.Third, the book contains a pleasant blend of theoretical and practical information.

This book is a well-prepared and well-presented summary of unsaturated zone hydrology.It covers a fairly broad range of topics and will be of interest to scientists and engineers engaged in a wide variety of unsaturated zone studies.Even the price is quite reasonable! (...)

Very complete, an excellent teaching and reference text.
As a professor of hydrology I have found this book to be the most complete and up-to-date that can be found.I own 25 texts in hydrology, unsaturated zone hydrology, and soil physics, including several dealing with contaminant transport.This book is well written and comprehensive, yet allows me the flexibility to teach courses based on student knowledge.I found this difficult in the past because many students entered our program with no soils or hydrology background.The first few chapters of this book gives the essentials required in these areas and gets the students quickly up to speed.

There are many completed problem sets in the text that show the students how to logically approach and solve very complex problems.The instructor manual that is available separately for the text has been a life saver.It is accurate and allows me to use my own problem sets that I have designed and collected over the years and it lets me supplement with problems that are worked-out in detail within the manual.

For instructors who wish to teach a more advanced modelling course, this book will allow teaching a highly advanced course if desired.

I found a few errors in nomenclature and some inacuracies in a few of the problems.These were minor and were also listed in the errata of the book, which unfortunately was not shipped from the publisher, but obtained from the authors whom I wrote.They quickly sent it to me.

Thank you James Tindall and James Kunkel for a fine text, one that was too long in coming. ... Read more

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Engineering Hydrology by Ponce (USED)
This is THE book on hydrology.I have been looking for a good hydrology book for sometime.Most of the ones I have encountered were either too insipid or too caught up in the minutia.Like "Goldie Locks" this one is just right.It was a used book but it condition is excellent.

what can i say?
Its a nice book and a lot of information that you look up from this book, and nice to have it when you need it.

Very clear and understanable book
The book covers most of the hydrology. Students should keep this book as a handbook. I recommend this book all level of hdyrology students. ... Read more

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Covering wetlands soils from Florida to Alaska, Wetland Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification provides information on all types of hydric soils. With contributions from soil scientists who have extensive field experience, the book focuses on the soil morphology of the wet soils that cover most wetlands from the subtropics northward. No previous book has been devoted solely to the subject of hydric soils and their landscapes.The book is well organized and divided into three parts. Part I examines the basic concepts, processes, and properties of aspects of hydric soils that pertain to virtually any hydric soil. It provides a general overview and important terms and concepts. Part II covers the soils in specific kinds of wetlands and the different functions they perform. Part III emphasizes special wetlands conditions such as soils composed of sand, organic soils in northern North America, prairie wetlands, wetlands in saline situations, dry climates, and wetlands with modified hydrology.Whether you are an expert in soil science, or just need a crash course, this reference prepares you to work with real wetlands-outdoors. Written for scientists without a background in soil science and comprehensive in scope, Wetlands Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification provides basic and advanced coverage, explaining the fundamentals of hydric soils in terms even a non-soil scientist can understand. ... Read more

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The natural scarcity of water in arid and semiarid regions, aggravated by man-made factors, makes it difficult to achieve a reliable water resources supply. Communities in these areas pay the price for thousands of years of water manipulation. Presenting important insight into the complexities of arid region hydrology, Engineering Hydrology of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions explores the key components for formulating and implementing integrated management approaches in catchment (wadi) systems.

The book introduces the engineering hydrology of arid and semi-arid regions, covering meteorological processes and hydrology. The author discusses precipitation and precipitation losses, catchment characteristics, and runoff estimation methods. He also examines streamflow measurements and hydrographs, flood routing, and groundwater hydrology, including the basic equations of groundwater flow and analytic solutions describing flow aquifers, pumping tests, and salt water intrusion. Building on this foundation, the book then delineates sediment yield in watersheds and streams and the design of hydraulic structures for protection and management of water resources systems. It includes case studies, conversion tables, and modeling software.

During the last two decades, research efforts and networking have enhanced the state of knowledge about arid and semi-arid areas, especially watershed and catchment systems. Pulling this information together into a comprehensive resource, this book provides a better understanding of wadi hydrology, capacity-building processes, water education and training, and institutional development. This understanding can then be used to select the appropriate tools to support water management and optimize the sustainable use of water resources.

"When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water"
— Benjamin Franklin

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This text introduces engineering students to the principles and practice of engineering hydrology and shows, through examples, how to approach the apparently intractable problems which hydraulic engineers meet. The last decade has been a time of considerable activity in the subject, following the publication of the Flood Studies Report by the Institute of Hydrology. Examples of this on-going work include advances in urban hydrology, published as The Wallingford Procedure; the Low Flow Studies, the Flood Studies Supplementary Reports and the World Flood Study from IOH and the Manual for Estimation of Probable Maximum precipitation from the World Meteorological Organization. Short descriptions of some of these subjects have been included in this edition and the opportunity has been taken of enlarging the lists of problems, re-organizing chapters, updating references and including relevant new material. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available. ... Read more

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The statistical analysis of extreme data is important for various disciplines, including hydrology, insurance, finance, engineering and environmental sciences. This book provides a self-contained introduction to the parametric modeling, exploratory analysis and statistical interference for extreme values.

The entire text of this third edition has been thoroughly updated and rearranged to meet the new requirements. Additional sections and chapters, elaborated on more than 100 pages, are particularly concerned with topics like dependencies, the conditional analysis and the multivariate modeling of extreme data. Parts I–III about the basic extreme value methodology remain unchanged to some larger extent, yet notable are, e.g., the new sections about "An Overview of Reduced-Bias Estimation" (co-authored by M.I. Gomes), "The Spectral Decomposition Methodology", and "About Tail Independence" (co-authored by M. Frick), and the new chapter about "Extreme Value Statistics of Dependent Random Variables" (co-authored by H. Drees). Other new topics, e.g., a chapter about "Environmental Sciences", (co--authored by R.W. Katz), are collected within Parts IV–VI.

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Unexpected charge
The product is fine and it arrived a week ago, as desired. I bought two other products con amazon.com last year and they were sent to me from U.S. This time the package was sent from New Zealand and that cost me7.70 of unexpected duties.

Lack of practical insight
Although the treatment of many extreme values distributions is rather complete at a theoretical point of view, very few practical considerations with respect to the actual way one should use these various EV models is provided. Unless you already know which class of EV distribution to use in your case, this book will not serve much. An overly important aspect of fitting distributions concerns the family of distribution to use for fitting a particular data, and here i haven't found much insight about practical considerations in this book. This is an important gap in this book because it is due to be practical.

On the other hand, the estimation of particular EV distributions is thoroughly covered, with theoretical (many references) and practical issues (for the estimation only) well described in every section.

Another negative point concerns the distribution of XTREMES provided with the book which is far from complete, and with bugs (changing on-line the values of the parameters of some distributions makes it crash...). I consider this book as a theoretically extended version of the manual of XTREMES, but not a self-sontained statistical book.

In summary, if you are interested in a very specific EV family, then this book can be useful, but not as a textbook. Rather go to Castillo (EV in engineering) for a good textbook on EV distributions.

Brilliant book!
Especially it is very interesting and advantageous in parts of EVTapplicacation in Insurance and Finance! ... Read more

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With "integrated water resources management" (IWRM) the current buzzword in international circles, the real question is: how to operationalise a truly multidisciplinary approach to the effective management of shared watercourses. Based largely on the actual experience of HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy), the overall aim of the book is to produce a series of case studies from around the world (from the Aral Sea to Zimbabwe) that demonstrate how the "gaps" between hydrology, water law and management are actually bridged in practice. Is hydrological data relevant and used in the formulation of national and international water law and policy? Cases cited include examples of where this has happened and been successful or unsuccessful and where this has not happened and led to problems. This will act as a guide to how future water laws and polices can be made more effective via the use of accurate and up to date hydrological information. ... Read more

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This is a concise introduction to principles and applications of hydrology in a geographical context. It uses a wealth of fully illustrated examples to relate theory to the real geographical problems associated with a subject central to our understanding of the natural environment and the use we make of it.

Whilst hydrology and the study of water resources have been established for sometime as topics for advanced study, they have been introduced into A-level syllabuses only recently. Elements of Geographical Hydrology is one of the first books aiming to serve the specific requirements at this level. It provides a sound introduction to the theory and principles of hydrology and illustrates them by means of examples. It then proceeds to show the relevance of hydrology to several important aspects of geography, namely: soil studies, hillslope development, and water resource management. It relies throughout on detailed examples, an approach which should enliven the subject and provide substantial material to bring home its realities and reinforce the reader's understanding.

The book is fully illustrated with many line drawings and photographs, all of which are closely linked with the text. It offers opportunities for the reader to test his or her understanding of the subject by means of problem exercises. A selected and annotated list of further reading indicates the most useful and accessible sources of more comprehensive and advanced material.

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Initially, the role of snow and ice in the global water balance is assessed and methods of snow measurements are explained. Remote sensing is dealt with with regard to periodical snow cover mapping. Last advances and refinements refer to spatial resolution, cloud interference and separate monitoring of snow and glacier ice. Following a review of snow melt and runoff modelling, the Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) demonstrates the merits of remote sensing in snow hydrology by using the satellite data as a direct input variable. Applications in over 100 mountain basins around the world are documented, with surface areas ranging from 0.3 km2 to 900.000 km2. Based on runoff modelling, runoff forecasts are dealt with including seasonal and short term forecasts as well as computation of hydrographs from forecasted temperatures and precipitation. The climate change is becoming a major concern of our times. The effect of various climate scenarios on the seasonal snow cover and runoff is evaluated by the updated computer program which also enable the real-time runoff forecasts to be improved. As a final note, a method is outlined to predict the decline of glaciers in the warming climate.

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The manual provides a general overview of groundwater principles.Practical discussions are provided for planning groundwater investigations and modeling of groundwater flow.Additionally, a section on surface water and groundwater interaction is included.To enhance understanding of concepts, examples are provided throughout the manual.

This manual initially presents an overview of the occurrence and movement of groundwater.Procedures for planning and managing a site characterization and modeling study are then presented.This is followed by chapters addressing the technical aspects of field investigative methods and computer modeling.A final chapter discussing the interaction of groundwater and surface water is then presented.Appendices are included that contain detailed references, definitions, and additional supporting information. ... Read more