Where the River Flows
：Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways
Publication subTitle ：Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways
Author： Fleming Sean W.
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9781400885022
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691168784
Subject： P343.1 river
Keyword： 地球物理学,水利工程,物理学,天文学、地球科学,生态学（生物生态学）,普通生物学
Language： ENG
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Description
Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us.
Sean Fleming draws on examples ranging from common backyard creeks to powerful and evocative rivers like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Thames, and Congo. Each chapter looks at a particular aspect of rivers through the lens of applied physics, using abundant graphics and intuitive analogies to explore the surprising connections between watershed hydrology and the world around us. Fleming explains how river flows fluctuate like stock markets, what "digital rainbows" can tell us about climate change and its effects on water supply, how building virtual watersheds in silicon may help avoid the predicted water wars of the twenty-first century, and much more. Along the way, you will learn what some of the most exciting ideas in science—such as communications theory, fractals, and even artificial life—reveal about the life of rivers.
Where the River Flows offers a new understanding of the profound interrelationships that rivers have with landscapes, ecosystems, and societies, and shows how startling new i
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