Introduction to Physical Hydrology

• 1: Introduction


• 1.1: Major water types


• 1.2: Hydrological cycle


• 1.3: Drainage basin hydrological processes


• 1.4: Water balance


• 2: Atmospheric water


• 2.1: Cloud formation


• 2.2: Generation of precipitation


• 2.3: Precipitation types


• 2.4: Measuring precipitation


• 2.5: Areal precipitation


• 2.6: Evaporation types and measurement


• 2.7: Estimating evaporation: Penman-Monteith


• 3: Groundwater


• 3.1: Misconceptions


• 3.2: Drilling a hole


• 3.3: Bernoulli to the aid


• 3.4: Aqui


• 3.5: Effective infiltration velocity and infiltration rate


• 3.6: The soil as a wet sponge


• 3.7: Brothers in science: Darcy and Ohm


• 3.8: Refracting the water


• 3.9: Keep it simple and confined


• 3.10: Continuity and its consequences


• 3.11: Going Dutch


• 3.12: Flow nets


• 3.13: Groundwater flow regimes and systems


• 3.14: Fresh and saline: Ghijben-Herzberg


• 3.15: Groundwater hydraulics


• 4: Soil water


• 4.1: Negative water pressures


• 4.2: Determining the total potential


• 4.3: The soil as dry filter paper or a wet sponge


• 4.4: The soil moisture characteristic


• 4.5: Drying and wetting: hysteresis


• 4.6: Unsaturated water flow


• 4.7: Moving up: capillary rise and evaporation


• 4.8: Moving down: infiltration and percolation


• 4.9: Preferential flow


• 5: Surface water


• 5.1: Bernoulli revisited


• 5.2: Measuring stage, water velocity and discharge


• 5.3: Hydrograph analysis


• 5.4: Conceptual rainfall-runoff models


• 5.5: Variable source area hydrology

Martin Hendriks is Associate Professor of Physical Hydrology at Utrecht University, where he teaches hydrology and physical geography at all levels, and co-ordinates their MSc programme in Physical Geography and Hydrology.

I think it is the best textbook for undergraduates that I have seen so far. I am very fond of your examples, your exercise material and the treatment of mathematics. Professor Hubert Savenije, Delft University of Technology Excellent mathematical tools, and boxes that bring extra knowledge and interesting applications. A pleasure to read. Dr Roger Thunvik, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden A detailed and thorough review of the physical principles of hydrology... case studies and examples as 'boxes', and student exercises (along with all important answers) makes this student textbook a useful addition to the literature available in this subject area. Dr Ian Maddock, Principal Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Worcester The enterprise of Hendriks in writing this book represents an ambitious and difficult task, with the self-stated objective being to provide 'a combined approach to hydrology from environmental and social perspectives, in addition to the more traditional physical geography and civil engineering perspectives'. This approach works well and is likely to be well received by those wishing to rapidly immerse themselves in this field with little or no prior knowledge. It is an ideal introductory text for undergraduates in hydrology. Joan Estrany, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain