1st Edition
Surface Water Hydrology Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources Management in Arid Regions, Kuwait, March 2002
704 Pages
by
CRC Press
704 Pages
by
CRC Press
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About one third of the land surface of the world is either arid or semi-arid. The lack of freshwater resources in these regions constitutes a major deterrent to their sustainable development. Notwithstanding the water shortage, water continues to be used unwisely, wasted and polluted. This book begins with a discussion about data collection and processing, and continues with a discussion of the... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgments; Section 1: Hydrologic data; Section 2: Effect of climate change; Section 3: Rainfall; Section 4: Evaporation and evapotranspiration; Section 5: Infiltration; Section 6: Watershed modelling; Section 7: Flood and drought frequency analysis; Section 8: Hydrologic applications; Author index
Biography
V.P. Singh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University; M. Al-Rashed, Water Resources Division, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research; M.M. Sherif, Department of Civil Engineering, United Arab Emirates University
