Modern hydrology and sustainable water development

Title:

ISBN:

9781405171243

Personal Author:

Gupta, Sushil K. (Sushil Kumar), 1946-

Call Number:

GB 661.2 .G866 2011

Publication Information:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Physical Description:

xx, 437 p., [12] p. of plates. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). ; 26 cm.

Subject Term:

Hydrology.

Water resources development.

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Author Notes

Dr. S.K. Gupta has more than 150 publications in internationally refereed research journals and several books to his credit. Dr. Gupta has also been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Canberra. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

1.1 Table of contents

1 Fundamentals of Hydrology

a Peculiar Physical Properties of Water

i Boiling and Freezing points of water

ii Latent heat

iii Heat Capacity

iv Thermal expansion

v Density, Viscosity

vi Surface tension and Capillarity

b Water Quantity and Quality

i Quantity (volume and Flow rate).

1 Precipitation/snowmelt/gauges, networks, data sources/ accuracy.

2 Evaporation pans, evaporation and transpiration.

3 Surface water flow measurements (Weirs, flumes and gauges).

4 Soil moisture (soil-water pressure, tension/ retention)

ii Quality parameters.

1 pH.

2 DO.

3 Temperature.

4 Conductivity.

5 Chemical parameters.

6 Biological parameters

c Quantity and Timing of Flow

i Physics of Water Flow.

1 Visible Flow: Surface Water.

Uniform flow; Manning Equation.

Channel routing; reservoir routing.

2 Soil Water.

3 Invisible Flow: Groundwater.

Darcy's law; head data; equipotential and flow lines.

4 Hydraulic conductivity; hydraulic head; "K"

ii) Watersheds and Aquifers.

1 Watershed concepts (hydrologic cycle, estimation/measurement, flow patterns, divides).

Watershed characterization (land use, soil types, unsaturated flow).

Lakes.

2 Aquifers, storage properties and confining units.

3 Water budgets (balance equations, hydrologic cycle, global fluxes, atmosphere, oceans, climate, global energy budget).

4 Streamflow components and processes (runoff streamflow, baseflow, hydrograph separation, snow melt).

5 Hydrograph modeling.

6 Geologic basics in watershed characterization (earth materials cycling, rocks/minerals, soils, porosity, landforms, evaporation/evapotranspiration, fluvial geomorphology

2 Human Impacts On Water Quality And Flow

a Common inorganic and organic pollutants and sources

b Oxygen demands

i Biochemical

ii Carbonaceous

iii Nitrogenous

c Common organic pollutants

d Point, non-point, and atmospheric sources

e Urban impacts on water quality

f Sediment- erosion

i Land use effects

ii Transport

iii Sediment yield

iv Settling

g Nutrients

h Quantifying loads

i Water quality standards

j Human impacts on flow

i Infiltration

ii Recharge

iii Runoff

3 Hydrologic Investigations Using Isotopic Tracers

a Fundamentals of Isotope Geochemistry: Definitions, Terminology, Standards

b Stable isotope Fractionations: Ralyleigh equations, open and closed systems

c Biological fractionations

d Processes affecting isotope compositions

i Precipitation

ii Mesoscale circulation and storm trajectories

iii Evapo-transpiration

e Shallow aquifers

i Groundwater recharge

ii Groundwater dating

f Modeling of Isotope and hydrogeochemical responses

g Catchment models

h Groundwater models

4 Statistical Analyses

a Basic statistical measures (mean, median, variance, standard deviation)

b Frequency analysis

c Significance testing and analysis

d Normalization

e Detection limits

5 Interpretation, Analysis & Modeling Of Hydrological Processes

a Estimate groundwater discharge/recharge

i Estimate, measure or analyze infiltration

ii Infiltration models

b Estimate water budget

i Analyze precipitation data

ii Water balance models

c Interpret water chemistry data

d Predict groundwater contaminant fate and transport

i Model vadose zone contaminant transport

e Conduct analyses for statistical significance

f Model local groundwater flow

g Model regional groundwater flow

h Model regional groundwater quality

i Model groundwater contaminant transport

j Determine groundwater flow direction and velocity

k Estimate pollutant loads for groundwater

l Remote sensing and GIS tools

6 Design Of Hydrological Systems

a Design subsurface remediation systems (product/contaminant recovery, soil vapour, extraction, air sparging, etc.)

b Design water supply wells

c Design wellhead protection plans

d Conservation, Renovation and Reuse strategies

e Rain water harvesting and Groundwater Recharge

7 Water And Ethics

a Environmental context

b Social context

c Water-resource management

8 The Earth's Watery Envelope, Its Circulation And Global Change

a Hydrologic Cycle on Global scale: reservoirs and fluxes

b Drivers of global change

c Global change and hydrologic issues at different scales

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