Hydrology & Water Resources Engineering 2/e

Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering illustrates all the terms of the hydrologic cycle and discusses the possible ways of their estimation. Application of the methods to the field problems are discussed extensively. The book focuses primarily on surface water hydrology and all the aspects of hydrologic processes, analysis, and design. A book on water resources engineering cannot be complete without a discussion on the statistics, probabilities and ground water hydrology. These aspects are covered adequately in separate chapters. All the hydrologic processes and storages such as precipitation, infiltration, evaporation, stream flow-runoff estimation, evapo-transpiration, hydrograph, flood estimation, flood routing, reservoir and sedimentation are covered with a number of alternative approaches to solve the problems, followed by examples, taken from field data to make the readers understand the techniques conceptually. NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION: Appendices on: • Methods of Estimating Mean Rainfall Over a Watershed • Auto-regressive (AR) Model • Generation of Random Numbers

K. C. Patra

1 Introduction2 Statistics and Probabilities in Hydrology3 Precipitation4 Losses from Precipitation5 Ground Water6 Stream Flow7 Hydrograph8 Design Flood9 Flood Routing10 Reservoir and SedimentationAppendicesObjective QuestionsReferencesConversion Factors