Hydrology for Engineers

by Ray K. Linsley

Book Overview

This is a book for both senior and graduate courses. The computer as a tool for hydrologic analysis has been stressed. Traditional methods dicussed. Hydrology basic processes are also stressed. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070379564
• ISBN13: 9780070379565
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A down to earth book of essential hydrology for applications

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.