Overview
- Presents basic topics of soil hydrology clearly, making it suitable for a wide range of researchers and students
- Extremely well illustrated and complemented with practical tables
- Explores specific topics of soil hydrology, such as transport of water in mountainous, stony soils, water movement in water repellent soils, and basics of soil water modeling
- Covers up-to-date soil hydrology enriched with field and laboratory data
Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 32)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Soil moisture
- Soil Water
- Soil Water Movement
- Hydrophysical Characteristics of Soil
- Meteorology
- evapotranspiration
- soil hydrology
- soil-water potential
- soil-water retention
- soil hydraulic conductivity
- water-resource formation
- soil-water flow modeling
- retention of stony soils
- water repellent soils
- hydrogeology
- water quality and water pollution
About this book
The book presents soil hydrology in a simple way, while quantitatively expressing the soil water state and movement. It clearly and precisely describes basic terms of soil hydrology with a minimum of mathematics. It also includes the latest research findings in the field as well as the basics of the mathematical modeling of water movement in the soil-plant-atmosphere system (SPAS), using original research results to illustrate these issues.
This book is of interest to all scientists and professionals in soil hydrology, including beginners, as well as those interested and working in hydrology in general and soil hydrology in particular. In addition, it can also be used by specialists and students in related fields like agronomy, forestry, meteorology, hydrology, environmental engineering, environmental protection, and geography.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Rising from technical assistant to principal scientific officer, Dr Novák was engaged in the study of water and energy transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere system (SPAS), with a focus on evapotranspiration process measurement and calculation methods. His other fields of interest include extraction of soil water by roots as part of the chain soil-plant-atmosphere system and mathematical modeling of water transport in the root zone of the soil to the atmosphere. The mathematical models he developed have been used for the diagnosis and prognosis of the soil water regime of different localities, especially for heavy-soil management in East Slovakia. Another important application of these models was the diagnosis and prognosis of the soil water regime management of the inundation area of the Danube river lowland. The simulation model HYDRUS-ET was developed jointly by US Salinity Laboratory (Riverside, CA, USA) and the Institute of Hydrology SAS (Bratislava, Slovakia). Dr Novák's other field of interest is the role of different canopies in the water regime of mountainous landscape, particularly the transport of water and energy in the SPAS. About 41 percent of Slovak territory is covered by forest and the majority of forest soils are stony soils, making the role of stoniness on soil water regimen of mountainous forest soils his next field of interest.
Author and coauthor of more than 70 journal publications, 4 monographs, and with more than 300 WOS citations, Dr Novák was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechnics (Bratislava), 1992-2000, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Agric. & Water Management (Elsevier), 1995-2000. He has been a member of the editorial board of International Agrophysics (Lublin, Poland) since 2012.
Hana Hlaváčiková is a soil hydrologist at the Institute of Hydrology, Department of Subsurface Water Hydrology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (IH SAS), Bratislava, Slovakia. She received her MSc degree at the Slovak Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering in Bratislava (1995) and her PhD (2015) at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the field of water transport in mountainous, stony soils and its role in outflow generation. She participated in the international course on hydrological data for water resource planning organized by UNESCO (Prague, 1996). From 1998 to 2011, she was employed in the field of hydro-meteorology and infrastructure design and since 2011 she is engaged at the Institute of Hydrology where she works in the field of water movement in mountainous soils with high rock-fragment content and the influence of stoniness on runoff formation. Her research includes the original method of stony hydraulic conductivity calculation and the influence of shape and distribution of rock fragments in stony soils on saturated hydraulic conductivity, as well as mathematical modeling of water flow in stony soils.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applied Soil Hydrology
Authors: Viliam Novák, Hana Hlaváčiková
Series Title: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01806-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01805-4Published: 07 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13195-1Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01806-1Published: 24 October 2018
Series ISSN: 0924-6118
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6940
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 342
Number of Illustrations: 130 b/w illustrations
Topics: Hydrogeology, Soil Science & Conservation, Hydrology/Water Resources, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Meteorology