Howard Wheater, Soroosh Sorooshian, K. D. Sharma

Hydrological Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Arid and semi-arid regions are defined as areas where water is at its most scarce. The hydrological regime in these areas is extreme and highly variable, and they face great pressures to deliver and manage freshwater resources. However, there is no guidance on the decision support tools that are needed to underpin flood and water resource management in arid areas. UNESCO initiated the Global network for Water and Development Information for arid lands (GWADI), and arranged a workshop of the world's leading experts to discuss these issues. This book presents chapters from contributors to the workshop, and includes case studies from the world's major arid regions to demonstrate model applications, and web links to tutorials and state of the art modelling software. This volume is a valuable reference for researchers and engineers working on the water resources of arid and semi-arid regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9780521869188
• ISBN-10: 0521869188
• Artikelnr.: 22783445

Autorenporträt

Howard Wheater is Head of Environmental and Water Resource Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, and co-Chair of GWADI.
Soroosh Sorooshian is Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Centre for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California at Irvine.
K. D. Sharma is Director of the National Institute of Hydrology, India, and a member of the GWADI Steering Committee. He is also a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Winand Staring Centre, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Howard Wheater, Soroosh Sorooshian and K. D. Sharma; 1. Modelling
hydrological processes in arid and semi-arid areas - an introduction Howard
Wheater; 2. Global precipitation estimation from satellite imagery using
artificial neural networks Soroosh Sorooshian, K.-L. Hsu, B. Imam and Y.
Hong; 3. Modelling semi-arid and arid hydrology and water resources - the
southern Africa experience D. A. Hughes; 4. Use of the IHACRES
rainfall-runoff model in arid and semi-arid regions B. F. W. Croke and A.
J. Jakeman; 5. KINEROS2 and the AGWA modelling framework D. J. Semmens, D.
C. Goodrich, C. L. Unkrich, R. E. Smith, D. A. Woolhiser and S. N. Miller;
6. A distributed spatial sediment delivery model for arid regions K. D.
Sharma; 7. The Modular Modeling System (MMS): a toolbox for water and
environmental resources management G. H. Leavesley, S. L. Markstrom, R. J.
Viger and L. E. Hay; 8. Calibration, uncertainty and regional analysis of
conceptual rainfall-runoff models Howard Wheater, T. Wagener and N.
McIntyre; 9. Real-time flow forecasting P. C. Young; 10. Real-time flood
forecasting - Indian experience R. D. Singh; 11. Groundwater modeling in
hard-rock terrain in semi-arid areas: experience from India S. Ahmed, J.-C.
Maréchal, E. Ledoux and G. de Marsily; Appendix.