Climate and hydrology in mountain areas /
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| Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, c2005. |
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| Description: | xvi, 315 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5667812 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- List of Symbols
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas
- 1. Alpine Climate Change and Cryospheric Responses: An Introduction
- Part I. Snow And Ice Melt
- 2. Use of Positive Degree-Day Methods for calculating snow and ice melt and discharge in glaciarized basins in the Langtang valley
- 3. Surface energy balance of high altitude glaciers in the central Andes: the effect of snow penitents
- 4. Using subgrid parameterisation and a forest canopy climate model for improving forecasts of snowmelt runoff
- 5. Assessment of snow-covered areas using air temperatures during melt in a mountainous basin
- Part II. Soil Water And Permafrost
- 6. Permafrost monitoring in high mountain areas using a coupled geophysical and meteorological approach
- 7. Effects of frozen soil on the groundwater recharge in alpine areas
- 8. Water balance in surface soil: analytical solutions of flow equations and measurements in the Alpine Toce valley
- 9. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and water retention relationships for Alpine mountain soils
- Part III. Evaportranspiration And Water Balance
- 10. Water balance modeling with fuzzy parameterizations: application to an Alpine catchment
- 11. Water relations of Old Growth Douglas Fir Stands, Link
- 12. Comparison of evapotranspiration and condensation measurements between the giant mountains and the alps
- 13. Hydrology and ecology of mountain basins in central Norway
- Part IV. Coupling Meteorology And Hydrology
- 14. Runoff and Floods in the Alps: An Overview
- 15. The use of Coupled Meteorological and Hydrological Models for Flash Flood Simulation
- 16. Operational weather radar assessment of convective precipitation as an input to flood modelling in mountainous basins
- 17. Geomorphological Zoning: An improvement to coupling alpine hydrology and meteorology?
- Part V. Climate Change Impact And Mountain Hydrology
- 18. The influence of glacier retreat on water yield from high mountain areas: comparison of Alps and Central Asia
- 19. Snowmelt under different temperature increase scenarios in the Swiss Alps
- 20. Climate Variability, Water Resources, and Hydrologic Extremes - Modelling the Water and Energy Budgets
- Index
