Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Modeling hydrologic changes and predicting their impact on watersheds is a dominant concern for hydrologists and other water resource professionals, civil and environmental engineers, and urban and regional planners.

Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "e;water wars,"e; shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building.

The Marine World is a book for everyone with an interest in the ocean, from the marine biologist or student wanting expert knowledge of a particular group to the naturalist or diver exploring the seashore and beyond.

This book is the result of a joint research effort led by the U.

This book highlights several opportunities that exist in satellite remote sensing of large-scale terrestrial hydrology.

This monograph presents cutting-edge research on dispersive wave modelling, and the numerical methods used to simulate the propagation and generation of long surface water waves.

This manual describes the wide range of electromechanical, electrochemical and electro-optical transducers at the heart of current field-deployable ocean observing instruments.

A definitive guide, this book focuses on the design and construction of water infrastructure projects within karst formations and provides engineering approaches for preventing and mitigating their environmental problems.

Examining the current literature, research, and relevant case studies, presented by a team of international experts, the Urban Water Reuse Handbook discusses the pros and cons of water reuse and explores new and alternative methods for obtaining a sustainable water supply.

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generally hidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% of the Earth s surface, including large parts of ancient mountain belts.

This volume is a guide to the state of the art of activated carbon adsorption technology as applied to wastewater treatment.

Discover the science, cultural history, and environmental importance of our planet's oceans.

This Brief reports on heat transfer from a solid boundary in a saturated porous medium.

Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, this book highlights current challenges in, and potential solutions to, environmental water management in Mexico.

This book presents the proceedings of CIDIN and COPINAVAL.

This book contains steam tables for practical industrial use calculated by using the international standard IAPWS-IF97 for the thermodynamic properties of water and steam and the IAPWS industrial standards for transport and other properties.

This comprehensive guide to wetland weeds covers both native and introduced species, ranging from minor or localised environmental problems to those that should not be tolerated in any situation.

Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts: Maps, Archives, and Timelines cultivates the spatial thinking "e;habit of mind"e; as a critical geographical view of how the world works, including how environmental systems function, and how we can approach and solve environmental problems using maps, archives, and timelines.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the existing nature of India's groundwater laws.

R and Python for Oceanographers: A Practical Guide with Applications describes the uses of scientific Python packages and R in oceanographic data analysis, including both script codes and graphic outputs.

Over the last decade and particularly in recent years, the macroscopic porous media theory has made decisive progress concerning the fundamentals of the theory and the development of mathematical models in various fields of engineering and biomechanics.

This book explores computational fluid dynamics applied to ship hydrodynamics and provides guidelines for the future developments in the field based on the Tokyo 2015 Workshop.

Mounting concern about the influence of humans on climate and environmental conditions has increased the need for multi-disciplinary modeling efforts, including systems such as oceans, costal seas, lakes, land surfaces, ice, rivers and atmosphere.

This book offers a systematic study of control algorithms applied in the operation of solar membrane distillation (SMD) facilities.

Did you know that the city of Oxford is built on a series of islands?

Flood risk management policy across the European Union is changing, partly in response to the EU Floods Directive and partly because of new scientific approaches and research findings.

Reports of closed beaches, restricted shellfish beds, oil spills, and ailing fisheries are some of the recent evidence that our marine environment is in trouble.

Rivers of the World, vividly written and meticulously researched, is a rich and thorough treatment of some 200 of the world's rivers.

This is the 2nd edition of one of the most comprehensive accounts of debris flow, describing both theoretical and applied aspects.

This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world.

This book introduces the readers to possible aspects of the rainwater harvesting system against urbanization to plan, design, and implement.

The Thames Estuary is the gateway into London that had to be defended against seaborne invasion.

An innovative study of how the quantity, function and ecology of water changes from watershed to river.

Water is our planet s most precious resource.

This book presents methods for investigating the effects of aquatic environmental changes on organisms and the mechanisms involved.

This second edition focuses on the application of statistical methods in the field of hydrology and hydroclimatology.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Immunocompromised persons are more vulnerable than the general population to contaminants in drinking water and include persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, cancer survivors, transplant recipients, individuals with HIV/AIDS or other immune disorders, some elderly, infants, and pregnant mothers.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the concepts and methodologies of data and modelling-driven hydrological analyses and their wide range of practical applications.

Presents a systematic and comprehensive study of hydraulic fracturing, original in its concentration of core soil problems There have been a number of well-studied cases in which dams have failed or been damaged by concentrated leaks for no apparent cause.

The development of analytical methods for identifying widespread perchlorate contamination brought about an explosion of research into the environmental problems and their potential solutions along with a corresponding increase in the availability of information.

Sustainable management of water resources is quickly increasing in importance on a global scale.

This heavily illustrated book is written by top archaeologists who study Florida's sunken heritage in unique underwater sites.

This upper-undergraduate/graduate-level textbook introduces students to large-scale tropical climate circulation and its variations, covering their fundamental aspects and our current understanding of how they are impacted in a warming world.

The Antarctic Sector of the Pacific covers the area between Australia and South America south of about 45(deg)S.

The field of oceanographic data assimilation is now well established.

The global human population will reach nine billion by 2050, and seafood is projected to be the primary food source to sustain such a large population.

An up-to-date summary of our understanding of the dynamics and thermodynamics of moist atmospheric convection, with a strong focus on recent developments in the field.

The book addresses the challenges of urban water security and adaptive management in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring and interlinking novel concepts of ecosystems services, watershed investments, and boundary work.

The question of whether the earth's climate is changing in some significant human-induced way remains a matter of much debate.