Water at the Surface of Earth :An Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics

Publication subTitle :An Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics

Author: Miller   David M.  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 1982

E-ISBN: 9780080924779

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780124967526

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780124967526

Subject: P343 Terrestrial Hydrology, geography (水象学)

Language: ENG

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Water at the Surface of the Earth: An Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics provides an introduction to the ways in which biological, physical, cultural, and urban systems at the surface of the earth operate, with a particular focus on the hydrodynamics of ecosystems, i.e., water and its association with other forms of matter, including pollutants, and with several forms of energy. The chapter sequence in this book follows the downward progress of water from the lower atmosphere, through ecosystems at the earth's surface, through the soil and mantle rock, to the ""waters under the earth."" In other words, the book begins with input of water to ecosystems, then describes how it is processed in these systems, and ends with the liquid water yield from them.
The book first discusses storms in the atmosphere. These are systems that convert inflows of water vapor into outflows of raindrops and snowflakes that are precipitated to the underlying surface. This is followed by separate chapters on how water is delivered from the atmosphere to surface ecosystems; water budgets at the surface and in the soil; evaporation from these systems back to the atmosphere; water in the local air and rocks; and horizontal movement of water transformed by ecosystems where the preceding storages and fluxes were located.

Chapter

Front Cover

pp.:  1 – 4

Copyright Page

pp.:  5 – 8

Contents

pp.:  8 – 12

Preface

pp.:  12 – 14

Chapter I. Introduction

pp.:  14 – 20

Chapter III. Point Rainfall-The Delivery of Water to an Ecosystem

pp.:  51 – 77

Chapter IV. Hydrologic Storms

pp.:  77 – 103

Chapter V. Large-Scale Organization of Rainfall

pp.:  103 – 135

Chapter VI. Reception of Water by Ecosystems

pp.:  135 – 168

Chapter VII. Water Detained on the Soil Surface

pp.:  168 – 210

Chapter VIII. The Soil as Environment of Water

pp.:  210 – 228

Chapter IX. Soil Moisture

pp.:  228 – 264

Chapter X. Evaporation from Wet Surfaces

pp.:  264 – 287

Chapter XI. Evaporation from Wen-Watered Ecosystems

pp.:  287 – 317

Chapter XII. Evaporation from Drying Ecosystems

pp.:  317 – 358

Chapter XIII. Water in the Local Air

pp.:  358 – 386

Chapter XIV. Percolation from Ecosystems

pp.:  386 – 405

Chapter XV. Groundwater and Its Outflows into Local Ecosystems

pp.:  405 – 436

Chapter XVI. Surface Transports from Ecosystems

pp.:  436 – 487

Chapter XVII. Off-Site Yield of Ecosystems

pp.:  487 – 531

Chapter XVIII. Water in Ecosystems

pp.:  531 – 546

INDEX

pp.:  546 – 572

International Geophysics Series

pp.:  572 – 574

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