Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Science of Hydrology
2. Precipitation and Evapotranspiration
3. The Basis for Analysis in Physical Hydrology: Principles of Fluid Dynamics
4. Open Channel Hydraulics
5. Catchment Hydrology: Streams and Floods
6. Groundwater Hydraulic
7. Groundwater Hydrology
8. Water in the Unsaturated Zone
9. Ecohydrology: Interactions between Hydrological Processes and the Biota
10. Catchment Hydrology: The Hillslope-Stream Continuum
11. Water, Climate, Energy, and Food
Appendixes
1. Units, Dimensions, and Conversions
2. Properties of Water
3. Basic Statistics in Hydrology
Answers to Example Problems
Glossary
References
Index

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About the Author

George M. Hornberger is director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment and Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University. Patricia L. Wiberg is a professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Jeffrey P. Raffensperger is a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. Paolo D'Odorico is the Ernest H. Ern Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia.

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