Hydrology: An Introduction

Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Water aloft: fluid mechanics of the lower atmosphere 3. Precipitation 4. Evaporation 5. Water on the land surface: fluid mechanics of free surface flow 6. Overland flow 7. Streamflow routing 8. Water beneath the ground: fluid mechanics of flow in porous materials 9. Infiltration and related unsaturated flows 10. Groundwater outflow and base flow 11. Streamflow generation: mechanisms and parameterization 12. Streamflow response at the catchment scale 13. Elements of frequency analysis in hydrology 14. Afterword - a short historical sketch of theories about the water circulation on earth Appendix.