Land Surface Processes in Hydrology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Models and Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Data, Data Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

      • John C. Rodda

      Pages 3-18

   3. The Trials and Tribulations of Modeling and Measuring in Surface Water Hydrology

      • Soroosh Sorooshian

      Pages 19-43

   4. Hydrological Processes in GCMs

      • K. Laval

      Pages 45-61

   5. The Challenges We Face: Panel Discussion on Data and Models

      • Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian

      Pages 63-70

   6. Participant Opinion Survey: How Satisfied Are We with Hydrologic Data?

      • Jene Michaud

      Pages 71-72

3. Precipitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. The Measurement of Rainfall

      • C. G. Collier

      Pages 75-111

   3. Modeling of Heavy Rainfall

      • J. A. Smith, A. A. Bradley

      Pages 113-134

   4. Capabilities of Microwave Sensors for Monitoring Areal Extent and Physical Properties of the Snowpack

      • Helmut Rott

      Pages 135-167

   5. The Challenges We Face: Panel Discussion on Precipitation

      • Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian

      Pages 169-180

   6. The Question of Priorities in Rainfall Information and Data: A Minority Viewpoint?

      • Sharon Nicholson

      Pages 181-182

   7. The Challenges We Face: Panel Discussion on Snow

      • Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian

      Pages 183-187

4. Soil Moisture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Process, Heterogeneity and Scale in Modelling Soil Moisture Fluxes

      • Keith Beven

      Pages 191-213

   3. Approaches for Measuring and Modeling Soil Moisture

      • Ian R. Calder

      Pages 215-237

   4. Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

      • Thomas Schmugge, Thomas Jackson

      Pages 239-262

   5. Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Moisture Related Parameters by Means of Microwave Radiometry: Instruments, Data, and Examples of Application in Hydrology

      • A. M. Shutko

      Pages 263-273

   6. The Challenges We Face: Panel Discussion on Soil Moisture

      • Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian

      Pages 275-278

General circulation models (GCMs) predict certain changes in the amounts and distribution of precipitation, but the conversion of these predictions of impacts on water resources presents novel problems in hydrologic modeling, particularly with regard to the scale of the processes involved. Therefore improved, distributed GCMs are required. New remote sensing technologies provide the necessary spatially distributed data. However, there are many attendant problems with the translation of remotely sensed signals into hydrologically relevant information. This book elucidates how to improve the representation of land surface hydrologic processes in GCMs and in regional and global scale climate studies. It is divided into five sections: Models and Data; Precipitation; Soil Moisture; Evapotranspiration; Runoff.

• Fernerkundung
• Global climate model
• Hydrologie
• Klimatologie
• Precipitation
• Scale
• climatology
• global change
• globale Veränderung
• hydrology
• moisture
• remote sensing

• Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Soroosh Sorooshian, Hoshin V. Gupta

• Hydrology and Water Resources Department, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

  John C. Rodda

• International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK

  John C. Rodda

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