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Scales in Hydrology and Water Management Echelles en hydrologie Edited by Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia,
A joint IAHS / UNESCO-IHP publication |
IAHS Publication 287 |
Space and time scales are fundamental for both scientific and operational hydrology issues. The question of how different scales interact and how we can transport results from one scale to another is basic to hydrological understanding and strategically important for decision-making.
Two questions dominate water resources management: how much remains for the future? and what is the response to environmental stresses? To answer them, a proper grasp of the interactions at different scales between the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, and their relations to agricultural, urban and industrial activities is needed.
A collection of essays by engineers and scientists currently tackling the issues of scale dependence in hydrological phenomena and water resources management
Preface
Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, Mike Bonell & Pierre Hubert
Multiscale information management and decision tools for effective water resource management
Anthony M. Saracino, Jean-Pierre Delhomme & Robert A. Will
Scale appropriate modelling: from mechanisms to management
Paul F. Quinn, Caspar J. M. Hewett & Aidan Doyle
Le bassin versant, nouvelle échelle de gestion des eaux au Brésil
Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson
Multiscale approaches to watershed management: land-use impacts on nutrient and sediment dynamics
Hans Schreier & Sandra Brown
Scaling soil moisture for hydrological models
Alain Pietroniro, Eric D. Soulis & N. Kouwen
Prediction of statistical scaling in peak flows for rainfall–runoff events: a new framework for testing physical hypotheses
Vijay K. Gupta
Multiscaling geophysics and sustainable development
I. Tchiguirinskaia, D. Schertzer, P. Hubert, H. Bendjoudi & S. Lovejoy
Modelling and forecasting rainfall in space and time
Alan Seed
The impact of spatial scale on spatial variability in hydrologic response: experiments and ideas
Ross Woods
Financial support for the preparation of this publication from Schlumberger Water Services is gratefully appreciated.
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F-92936 La Défense Cedex, France
The Editors would like to express their thanks to André Martins de Barros for giving permission for use of his work,
Miroirs du temps ©André Martins de Barros
to illustrate the front cover of this volume.
M. Martins de Barros lives and works in Paris; his work can be seen at: www.martinsdebarros.com.
He may be contacted at: andre@martinsdebarros.com, or:
Atelier 102–102 rue Lepic, F-75018 Paris, France.
Tel. +33 1 42 647034 / +33 1 42 591931
