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by: Edited by David R. Maidment
Written by more than 50 experts from around the world, this compendium of hydrologic theory and practice is a welcome and long overdue essential reference for all practicing hydrologists and related professionals.
The handbook offers solutions to your most perplexing on-the-job problems, including how to:
- Estimate the magnitudes of floods and mitigate their effects
- Develop solutions for cleaning up and preventing pollution of surface water and groundwater
- Assess water usage for a city or an irrigation project
- Choose reliable methods for an urban drainage design
- Calculate the rate of rainfall, evaporation, infiltration, groundwater flow, snowmelt, and streamflow
- Determine the rate of movement of contaminants in surface water and groundwater
- Assess the hydrologic effects of land-use changes such as deforestation
- Statistically analyze hydrologic data, including extreme events, time series, and spatial data
- Select the best computer package for hydrologic simulation
- Use remote sensing, automated data collection, forecasting, and advanced computer methods in hydrology
Published by McGraw-Hill
Edition: 1993
- Hardback
- 1000 pp.
ISBN 0070397325;
Catalog No. 20432
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