Scientific basis of water-resource management
By: Geophysics Study Committee, Geophysics Research Board, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council.
Contributors: American Geophysical Union.
Series: Studies in geophysics
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Hydrology -- Congresses.; Water resources development -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Based on papers presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco in Dec. 1979.
Table of contents: value: Models of runoff processes and their significance / Thomas Dunne; value: Hydrology and climate / Peter S. Eagleson; value: Implications of the vadose zone to water-resource management / Donald R. Nielsen and J.W. Biggar; value: Groundwater : the water-budget myth / John D. Bredehoeft, S.S. Papadopulos, and H.H. Cooper, Jr.; value: Quality of water; value: surface and subsurface / Raymond Siever and Werner Stumm; value: Predictive and reactive systems for aquatic ecosystem quality control / John Cairns, Jr.; value: Robust estimators in hydrology / Myron B. Fiering and George Kuczera; value: Empirical and causal models in hydrology / V. Klemes; value: Field data : the interface between hydrology and geomorphology / Luna B. Leopold; value: Geology, determinism, risk assessment / Victor R. Baker; value: Prediction in water management / Nicholas C. Matalas, Jurate Maciunas Landwehr, and M. Gordon Wolman.