Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORSINTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARDPRACTITIONER ADVISORY BOARDABOUT THE EDITOR IN CHIEFPREFACEPart 1: Hydrologic CycleChapter 1: Hydrology (D.R. Maidment)Chapter 2: Climatology (E.M. Rassmusson, R.E. Dickinson, J.E. Kutzbach, and M.K. Cleveland)Chapter 3: Precipitation (J.A. Smith)Chapter 4: Evaporation (W.J. Shuttleworth)Chapter 5: Infiltration and Soil Water Movement (W.J. Rawls, L.R. Ahuja, D.L. Brakensiek, and A. Shirmohammadi)Chapter 6: Groundwater Flow (L. Smith and S.J. Wheatcraft)Chapter 7: Snow and Floating Ice (D.M. Gray and T.D. Prowse)Chapter 8: Streamflow (M.P. Mosley and A.I. McKerchar)Chapter 9: Flood Runoff (D.H. Pilgrim and I. Cordery)Chapter 10: Flow Routing (D.L. Fread)Part 2: Hydrologic TransportChapter 11: Water Quality (S.C. McCutcheon, J.L. Martin and T.O. Barnwell, Jr.)Chapter 12: Erosion and Sediment Transport (H.W. Shen and P. Julien)Chapter 13: Hydrologic Effects of Land Use Change (J.R. Calder)Chapter 14: Contaminant Transport in Surface Water (W.C. Huber)Chapter 15: Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Flow (R.J. Charbeneau and D.E. Daniel)Chapter 16: Contaminant Transport in Groundwater (J.W. Mercer and R.K. Waddell)Part 3: Hydrologic StatisticsChapter 17: Statistical Treatment of Hydrologic Data (R.M. Hirsch, D.R. Helsel, T.A. Cohn, and E.J. Gilroy)Chapter 18: Frequency Analysis of Extreme Events (J.R. Stedinger, R.M. Vogel, and E. Fourfouta-Georgiou)Chapter 19: Analysis and Modelling of Hydrologic Time Series (J.D. Salas)Chapter 20: Geostatistics (P.K. Kitanidis)Part 4: Hydrologic TechnologyChapter 21: Computer Models for Surface Water (J.J. DeVries and T.V. Hromadka II)Chapter 22: Computer Models for Subsurface Water (M.P. Anderson, D.S. Ward, E.G. Lappala, and T.A. Prickett)Chapter 23: Advances in Hydrologic Computation (R.D. Dodson)Chapter 24: Remote Sensing (E.T. Engman)Chapter 25: Automated Data Acquisition and Transmission (V.J. Latkovich and G.H. Leavesley)Chapter 26: Hydrologic Forecasting (D.L. Lettenmaier and E.F. Wood)Chapter 27: Hydrologic Design for Water Use (T.A. McMahon)Chapter 28: Hydrologic Design for Urban Drainage and Flood Control (B.R. Urbanas and L.A. Roesner)Chapter 29: Hydrologic Design for Groundwater Pollution Control (P.E. Bedient, F.W. Schwartz, and H.S. Rifai)

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