Streamflow Characteristics
Developments in Water Science
Published on 1. January 1985
263 pages
978-0-08-087013-7 (ISBN)
Description
Reliable estimates of streamflow characteristics are needed for planning, design, and operation of works for providing water supplies and for protection from flooding. This book brings together some of the most useful estimation methods - those that are simple, practical, and require only commonly available or readily obtainable data, and which give results comparable in accuracy with those derived from more sophisticated methods. The author describes how streamflow data are collected, how the characteristics are computed, how they are changed by man's activities, and how they are used in planning and design. Chapters describing statistical principles and techniques, and the effects of various climatic and physiographic factors on streamflow are included. The analytical methods are described in sufficient detail that the reader can apply them to his data. Further applications and other techniques are referred to in bibliographies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
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ISBN-13
978-0-08-087013-7 (9780080870137)
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Additional editions
H.C. Riggs
Streamflow Characteristics: Volume 22
Book
04/2000
Elsevier
€136.18
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Content
1. Introduction. 2. Factors Affecting Streamflow. 3. Collection of Hydrologic Data. 4. Statistics. 5. Streamflow Characteristics at a Gaged Site. 6. Relation of Ground Water to Streamflow. 7. Flow Characteristics at Ungaged Sites. 8. Flood-Frequency Analyses. 9. Low-Flow Characteristics. 10. The Changing Environment. 11. Applications of Hydrological Data. 12. Sources of Data and Information. Index.
