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Scientific basis of water-resource management /

Scientific basis of water-resource management / Geophysics Study Committee, Geophysics Research Board, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council. - Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1982. - xii, 127 p. - Studies in geophysics .

Based on papers presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco in Dec. 1979.

Contents: Models of runoff processes and their significance / Thomas Dunne -- Hydrology and climate / Peter S. Eagleson -- Implications of the vadose zone to water-resource management / Donald R. Nielsen and J.W. Biggar -- Groundwater : the water-budget myth / John D. Bredehoeft, S.S. Papadopulos, and H.H. Cooper, Jr. -- Quality of water--surface and subsurface / Raymond Siever and Werner Stumm -- Predictive and reactive systems for aquatic ecosystem quality control / John Cairns, Jr. -- Robust estimators in hydrology / Myron B. Fiering and George Kuczera -- Empirical and causal models in hydrology / V. Klemes -- Field data : the interface between hydrology and geomorphology / Luna B. Leopold -- Geology, determinism, risk assessment / Victor R. Baker -- Prediction in water management / Nicholas C. Matalas, Jurate Maciunas Landwehr, and M. Gordon Wolman


Hydrology.
Water resources development.

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