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- Provides a state-of-the-art review of current progress in identifying, understanding and modelling coupled processes that have become most important for hydrology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Hydrologists, climatologists, soil scientists and environmental engineers are frequently asked to analyse complex environmental problems. It is becoming increasingly apparent that these problems usually involve feedbacks between atmospheric, ecological, and hydrological systems, as well as human society. It is often the feedbacks between systems that are of greatest interest because they may produce unanticipated responses. That is why coupling of different compartments of the Earth system has emerged as a general challenge to the modelling community. This book considers an array of state-of-the-art coupling and modelling concepts. First the relevant Earth system cycles are presented, followed by a discussion on scale issues and multiple equilibria. Inter- and intra-compartmental coupling is addressed, along with a debate on non-linearities and questions of parameterisation. Several applications are presented, where a focus is on cases where the hydrological cycle plays a central role.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coupled Models for the Hydrological Cycle
Book Subtitle: Integrating Atmosphere, Biosphere and Pedosphere
Editors: Axel Bronstert, Jesus Carrera, Pavel Kabat, Sabine Lütkemeier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138919
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22371-9Published: 12 January 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06116-5Published: 13 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27325-7Published: 29 August 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 345
Topics: Hydrogeology, Hydrology/Water Resources, Earth Sciences, general, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change, Ecotoxicology