Scales in Hydrology and Water Management
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Author(s): I. Tchiguirinskaia, M. Bonell and P. Hubert (Eds)
Publisher: IAHS
ISBN: 1901502627
Format: softback
170pp
Price: £36.95
Review Date: 25 January 2005
Review: In discussing space scales in hydrology, we start from the planetary scale with a length scale of about 107 metres, going down to the limits of the continuum hypothesis forming the basis of classical fluid mechanics at 10-5 metres. Time scales also range from millions of years required for an erosion cycle to experimental measurements of the order of seconds. This book comprises nine papers (with abstracts in both English and French) from the Kovaks Colloquium held in 2004. Here engineers and scientists discuss issues of scale dependence in hydrological phenomena in relation to their application in integrated water resources management. Topics include: multiscale information management and decision tools; scale appropriate modelling; multiscale approaches to watershed management; scaling soil moisture for hydrological models; prediction of statistical scaling in peak flows for rainfall-runoff effects; multiscale geophysics and sustainable development; modelling and forecasting rainfall; and the impact of spatial scale on spatial variability in hydrologic response experiments.