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Applied Hydrometeorology

Pukhraj Rakhecha, Vijay P. Singh (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2009
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-9843-7 (ISBN)

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Water is vital for life. Since the dawn of civilization, much effort has been made to harness sources of fresh water. Recent years have raised global awareness of the need for increasing demand of water worldwide, largely because of growing population, rising standard of living, higher demand for energy, and greater appreciation for environmental quality. As an example, the world population has increased threefold in the past five decades. In order to meet the rising water demand, water resources are being developed by building large dams, reservoirs, barrages and weirs across rivers worldwide. The guiding principle for water resources development has been to ensure adequate supply of water for agriculture, domestic use (including fine drinking water), waste disposal, industries, and energy production, with due attention to maintain the ecosystem functions. This development, however, depends on a holistic, cooperative and scientific approach. The basic inputs in the assessment of waterresources for a given region are from hydrological data and the subject of hydrology forms the core in achieving sustainable development of water resources. Barring a few exceptions, hydrological data for most river basins are sparse and therefore it is difficult to comprehensively assess their water resources. The major source of water is rainfall which occurs as a result of condensation of atmospheric moisture governed by the science of meteorology.

The Atmosphere.- Atmospheric Processes.- Radiation and Temperature.- Weather Systems for Precipitation.- Weather and Precipitation in India.- Tropical Storms and Hurricanes.- Greatest Point and Areal Rainfalls.- Precipitation and Its Measurement.- Design Storm Estimation.- Statistical Analysis of Precipitation.- Foreshadowing Precipitation.- Evaporation.- Droughts.- Floods.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.5.2009
Zusatzinfo	120 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 350 p. 120 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4020-9843-X / 140209843X
ISBN-13	978-1-4020-9843-7 / 9781402098437
Zustand	Neuware