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Subject(s)

• Hydrology—Vocational guidance [Browse]

Related name

• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences [Browse]

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• THE PROBLEM
• A COURSE OF ACTION
• Contents
• Summary and Conclusions
• SYNOPSIS
• WATER AND LIFE
• EARTH'S HYDROLOGIC CYCLE
• A DISTINCT GEOSCIENCE
• Continental water processes
• Global water balance
• SOME UNSOLVED PROBLEMS
• DATA ISSUES
• EDUCATIONAL ISSUES
• Graduate Education in the Hydrologic Sciences
• Undergraduate Education in the Hydrologic Sciences
• Science Education from Kindergarten through High School
• SCIENTIFIC PRIORITIES
• Priority Categories of Scientific Opportunity (Unranked)
• Chemical and Biological Components of the Hydrologic Cycle
• Scaling of Dynamic Behavior
• Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions
• Coordinated Global-Scale Observation of Water Reservoirs and the Fluxes of Water and Energy
• Hydrologic Effects of Human Activity
• Data Requirements
• Maintenance of Continuous Long-Term Data Sets
• Improved Information Management
• Interpretation of Remote Sensing Data
• Dissemination of Data from Multidisciplinary Experiments
• Education Requirements
• Multidisciplinary Graduate Education Program
• Experience with Observation and Experimentation
• Visibility to Undergraduate Students
• RESOURCES AND STRATEGIES
• Resources
• Research Grant Programs
• Fellowships, Internships, and Instructional Equipment
• Coordinated Field Experiments
• Long-Term Observations
• Access to Data Bases
• Strategies
• CONCLUSION
• 1 Water and Life
• WONDROUS WATER
• Elixir of life
• Climatic thermostat
• Global heat exchanger
• ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND IT GOES
• WATER AS ENABLER AND SUSTAINER OF CIVILIZATION
• Water and Agriculture
• Water and Climate Change
• Water and the City
• WATER AS A HAZARD
• Floods
• Droughts
• Toxicity
• WATER AS A RESOURCE TO BE MANAGED.
• History of Water Management in the United States
• Provision of Safe Drinking Water
• Contemporary Water Resources Management Problems
• Emerging Water-Related Problems
• SOURCES AND SUGGESTED READING
• 2 The Hydrologic Sciences
• THE UNIQUENESS OF WATER ON THE EARTH
• THE EARTH'S HYDROLOGIC CYCLE
• THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER ON THE EARTH
• EARLY SCIENTIFIC INSIGHTS
• THE AGE OF APPLICATIONS
• THE STRUGGLE FOR SCIENTIFIC RECOGNITION
• THE MODERN AGE OF HYDROLOGIC SCIENCE
• STATUS OF UNDERSTANDING
• Reservoirs and Fluxes of Water
• Flux of Sediments
• Flux of Dissolved Solids
• Involvement of Biota
• Summary
• HYDROLOGIC SCIENCE AS A DISTINCT GEOSCIENCE
• 3 Some Critical and Emerging Areas
• OVERVIEW
• HYDROLOGY AND THE EARTH'S CRUST
• Introduction
• Some Frontier Topics
• The Role of Ground Water in Tectonic Processes
• Fractured Geologic Media
• Spatial Variability and Stochastic Simulation
• Dealing with the Complexity of Reactive Solutes
• Contamination of Ground Water Flow Systems
• HYDROLOGY AND LANDFORMS
• Prediction of Landscape Evolution
• Development of Drainage Basins and Channel Networks
• Three-Dimensional Network Geometry and Hydrologic Basin Response
• Interpreting Records of Environmental Change
• HYDROLOGY AND CLIMATIC PROCESSES
• Diagnostic Study of the Global Water Balance
• Surface-Atmosphere Interaction
• HYDROLOGY AND WEATHER PROCESSES
• Land Surface-Atmosphere Interaction
• Models for Mesoscale Convective Systems and Applications to Flash Flooding
• Stochastic Modeling of Space-Time Variability in Rainfall
• HYDROLOGY AND SURFICIAL PROCESSES
• Some Frontier Topics.
• Characterization of Spatial Variability of Soil Properties and Its Relation to Infiltration
• Runoff Production by Precipitation
• River Basin Evaporation
• Surface and Subsurface Water in a Freezing Environment
• Hydrology of Snow-Covered Areas
• Evaporation from Large Water Bodies
• HYDROLOGY AND LIVING COMMUNITIES
• Physiological Explanation of Boundaries of Major Vegetation Formations
• Optimality Constraints on Vegetation Communities
• Microbial Transformations of Ground Water Contaminants
• HYDROLOGY AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES
• Effects of Acid Rain
• Precipitation Chemistry
• Snowpack Chemistry
• Fate of Acid Deposition in the Soil Environment
• Contaminant Fate and Transport
• Global Chemical Cycles
• HYDROLOGY AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
• Scaling and Multiscaling Invariance in Spatial Variability of Hydrologic Processes
• Stochastic-Dynamical Analysis of Hydrologic Time Series
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Predictability of Hydrologic Phenomena
• Hydrology and the Earth's Crust
• Hydrology and Landforms
• Hydrology and Surficial Processes
• Hydrology and Living Communities
• Hydrology and Chemical Processes
• Hydrology and Applied Mathematics
• 4 Scientific Issues of Data Collection, Distribution, and Analysis
• NEED FOR COLLECTION OF HYDROLOGIC DATA AND SAMPLES
• Need to Collect Data at Varying Scales
• Need to Develop Accurate Hydrologic Data Bases to Improve Scientific Understanding
• Need to Collect Long-Term Hydrologic Data
• Understanding Hydrologic Behavior and Hydrologic Change
• Identifying Extreme Events
• Need to Collect Data Worldwide to Address Global Hydrologic Issues.
• Spatial and Temporal Issues in Hydrologic Problems
• Collection and Archiving of Selected Water Samples
• STATUS OF HYDROLOGIC DATA
• Availability of Hydrologic Measurements
• Fluxes and Reservoirs of Water, Solutes, and Sediment
• Rainfall
• Snow Accumulation and Ablation
• Surface Runoff
• Soil Moisture
• Subsurface Water below the Vadose Zone
• Evapotranspiration
• Fluxes of Energy
• Radiation
• Sensible and Latent Heat Exchange
• Surface and Subsurface Data
• Topography
• Land Cover
• Subsurface Information
• SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE HYDROLOGIC DATA
• Coordinated Experiments
• Scientific Development and Achievements
• Frontiers and Challenges
• Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing of Hydrologic Parameters
• Future Advances
• Opportunities for Effective Use of Current and Planned Sensors
• Remote Sensing below the Surface
• Isotope Geochemistry
• Paleohydrology and Long-Term Records
• Data Accessibility and Management
• Data Management in the First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• Data Storage and Access
• Issues to Resolve
• Challenges in Measuring Water Quality
• Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment
• Scientific Issues and Challenges
• Use of Biological Methods in Water Quality Analysis
• 5 Education in the Hydrologic Sciences
• GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES
• STRUCTURING THE GRADUATE PROGRAM
• UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES
• SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL
• WOMEN AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES
• 6 Scientific Priorities
• THE PROCESS
• 1. Expected contribution to scientific understanding
• 2. Support of a viable scientific infrastructure
• 3. Contribution to problem solving
• THE PREMISES.
• It is not possible to make rational priority judgments among very specific research questions.
• If the number of priority research areas is kept small, the list need not be ranked.
• In selecting the priority areas only the primary criterion should be used.
• The questions with the greatest potential for a contribution to understanding lie at the least-explored scales and in…
• Hydrologic science is currently data-limited.
• PRIORITY CATEGORIES OF SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITY (UNRANKED)
• Coordinated Global-scale Observation of Water Reservoirs and the Fluxes of Water and Energy
• DATA REQUIREMENTS
• Dissemination of Data from Coordinated Experiments
• EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
• 7 Resources and Strategies
• RESOURCES
• Campaigns
• Base-Line Studies
• Observation of Transients
• STRATEGIES
• Appendixes
• A Funding for Research in the Hydrologic Sciences
• Background
• Summary of Information Provided
• Discussion
• B Profiles of the Hydrologic Community, 1960 and 1988
• Comment on Possible Bias
• C Contributors to the Report, Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences
• D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-280-21258-6
• 9786610212583
• 0-309-53740-1
• 0-585-15397-3

OCLC

• 70730059
• 923266725

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