Hydrology for Engineers (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering) [Hardcover]

Ray K. Linsley (Author), Max Adam Kohler (Author), Joseph L. H. Paulhus (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 3 Sub edition (January 1, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070379564
• ISBN-13: 978-0070379565
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #930,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A down to earth book of essential hydrology for applications, August 30, 2000

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Prof G Ngirane-Katashaya (Kigezi, Uganda) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hydrology for Engineers (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering) (Hardcover)

This book is an essential read for civil/water/hydraulic/water resources/environmental engineers who need a bit more hydrology necessary for understanding the hydrology applied in their disciplines.

The book defines hydrology and proceeds to indicate the essential difference between applied hydrology and just scientific hydrology. Beginning with the traditional presentation of the hydrologic cycle, all the components of the cycle are dealt with in more detail in the subsequent chapters of the book to indicate the applications involving each and appropriate examples given.

Non-verbose explanations with adequate real examples are used in presentations of meteorology/solar radiation, rainfall/snowmelt, evaporation, infiltration, streamflow and hydrographs/unit hydrographs, groundwater occurrence and hydraulics, probability distributions/extreme value analysis/design floods/storms, river morhology, sedimentation, computer modelling, flood routing by hydrologic and hydraulic methods, and introduction to applications. These are by no means all the main contents - but just indicative of the variety of included essential topics.

It may be old (my edition of 1988) but still contains all the hydrology an engineer may ever need.