FIRST IN UKRAINE “HYDROLOGICAL DICTIONARY” WAS PUBLISHED (2022)
Authors:   Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, ZABOKRYTSKA M.R. 
Published: November 2022

The article presents and analyzes the explanatory “Hydrological Dictionary” published in 2022. Authors of the Dictionary: V.K. Khilchevskyi, V.V. Grebin (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), V.O. Manukalo (Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Hydrology is the science of the hydrosphere, which studies its properties, dynamics and interaction with other elements of the geographic envelope of the Earth. According to the objects under study, it is divided into hydrology. surface waters (or land hydrology), hydrology of oceans and seas (oceanology). In turn, the hydrology of surface waters is the hydrology of rivers (the study of rivers) and the hydrology of lakes (lake science or limnology). In water bodies, the following is studied: the dynamics of water masses (currents, waves, infiltration and other processes); dynamics of their bed (formation of banks and bottom of water bodies, channel processes, erosion, transport and sedimentation); thermal processes (heat exchange, heat balance, evaporation, water balance) and aggregate states of water (ice phenomena, snow cover), chemical and biological processes. The hydrology of groundwater (hydrogeology), the hydrology of soils, the hydrology of glaciers (glaciology) and the hydrology of swamps are also distinguished. Due to the commonality of the processes occurring in water bodies, along with the object-wise division of hydrology, it is often divided according to the processes studied into water dynamics, hydrophysics, hydrochemistry, and hydrobiology. Since these processes in each of the water bodies have their own characteristics, object disciplines have been developed in hydrology, including the study of a complex of issues in water dynamics, hydrophysics, hydrochemistry and hydrobiology. Since an ever wider range of specialists are involved in this area, including those who deal with the topical problem of the use, protection and reproduction of water resources, the issues of unification of hydrological terminology are becoming important. This goal is dedicated to the “Hydrological Dictionary”, which is the first in Ukraine scientific reference publication of this direction. The Dictionary includes more than 1600 terms and concepts that are widely used in the scientific literature on hydrology, as well as a number of terms in related scientific disciplines related to hydrology (hydrochemistry, geography, meteorology, geology, hydrogeology, hydrobiology, etc.). When working on the Dictionary, significant scientific and methodological experience of the scientific school of the Department of Hydrology and Hydroecology of the Faculty of Geography of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv was used. The dictionary is designed for students of universities specializing in “Earth Sciences” of educational programs in the hydrological profile. The dictionary will be useful to specialists in the field of hydrology, hydroecology, hydrochemistry, hydrogeology, geography.