Principles of Snow Hydrology

This book describes factors affecting the accumulation, melting and runoff of water from seasonal snowpacks.

David R. DeWalle (Author), Albert Rango (Author)

9780521823623, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 July 2008

428 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.99 kg

"...a valuable contribution, perhaps one that is destined for life as long and useful as that of its classical predecessors." Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Principles of Snow Hydrology describes the factors that control the accumulation, melting and runoff of water from seasonal snowpacks over the surface of the earth. The book addresses not only the basic principles governing snow in the hydrologic cycle, but also the latest applications of remote sensing, and techniques for modeling streamflow from snowmelt across large mixed land-use river basins. Individual chapters are devoted to climatology and distribution of snow, snowpack energy exchange, snow chemistry, ground-based measurements and remote sensing of snowpack characteristics, snowpack management, and modeling snowmelt runoff. Many chapters have review questions and problems with solutions available online. This book is a reference book for practicing water resources managers and a text for advanced hydrology and water resources courses which span fields such as engineering, earth sciences, meteorology, biogeochemistry, forestry and range management, and water resources planning.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Snow climatology and snow distribution
3. Snowpack condition
4. Ground-based snowfall and snowpack measurements
5. Remote sensing of the snowpack
6. Snowpack energy exchange: basic theory
7. Snowpack energy exchange: topographic and forest effects
8. Snowfall, snowpack and meltwater chemistry
9. Snowmelt runoff processes
10. Modelling snowmelt runoff
11. Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM)
12. Snowpack management and modifications
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Conservation of the environment [RNK], Limnology [freshwater RBKF], Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK]