Overview
- Presents a comprehensive approach and the technology involved
- Covers a wide range of subject matter involved in hydrology, ranging from soils to weather radar, and provides a glossary of terms
- Includes the theory of modeling with geospatial data and physical conservation laws
- Offers practical details on how to apply distributed hydrologic principles to solve water-resource and stormwater problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 74)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a unified approach for modeling hydrologic processes distributed in space and time using geographic information systems (GIS). This Third Edition focuses on the principles of implementing a distributed model using geospatial data to simulate hydrologic processes in urban, rural and peri-urban watersheds. The author describes fully distributed representations of hydrologic processes, where physics is the basis for modeling, and geospatial data forms the cornerstone of parameter and process representation. A physics-based approach involves conservation laws that govern the movement of water, ranging from precipitation over a river basin to flow in a river.
Global geospatial data have become readily available in GIS format, and a modeling approach that can utilize this data for hydrology offers numerous possibilities. GIS data formats, spatial interpolation and resolution have important effects on the hydrologic simulation of the major hydrologic components of a watershed, and the book provides examples illustrating how to represent a watershed with spatially distributed data along with the many pitfalls inherent in such an undertaking. Since the First and Second Editions, software development and applications have created a richer set of examples, and a deeper understanding of how to perform distributed hydrologic analysis and prediction. This Third Edition describes the development of geospatial data for use in Vflo® physics-based distributed modeling.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS
Authors: Baxter E. Vieux
Series Title: Water Science and Technology Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0930-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0928-4Published: 30 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1439-4Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-0930-7Published: 19 August 2016
Series ISSN: 0921-092X
Series E-ISSN: 1872-4663
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XVI, 262
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Hydrology/Water Resources, Natural Hazards, Physical Geography
Industry Sectors: Energy, Utilities & Environment, Materials & Steel, Oil, Gas & Geosciences