Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins: Synthesis Across Processes, Places and Scales

Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and flooding defences, runoff forecasting, and for catchment management tasks such as water allocation and climate impact analysis. This important new book synthesises decades of international research, forming a holistic approach to catchment hydrology and providing a one-stop resource for hydrologists in both developed and developing countries. Topics include data for runoff regionalisation, the prediction of runoff hydrographs, flow duration curves, flow paths and residence times, annual and seasonal runoff, and floods. Illustrated with many case studies and including a final chapter on recommendations for researchers and practitioners, this book is written by expert authors involved in the prestigious IAHS PUB initiative. It is a key resource for academic researchers and professionals in the fields of hydrology, hydrogeology, ecology, geography, soil science, and environmental and civil engineering.

Author: Günter Blöschl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/18/2013
Pages: 490
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.50lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781107028180

About the Author
Sivapalan, Murugesu: - Murugesu Sivapalan is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geography at the University of Illinois. He was founding chair of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB) initiative. He has published extensively on catchment hydrology in several international journals and is Executive Editor of the European Geosciences Union's Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal. Professor Sivapalan also received the European Geophysical Society's John Dalton Medal, the International Hydrology Prize of the IAHS, the Hydrological Sciences Award and Robert E. Horton Medal of the American Geophysical Union. He was also the recipient of the Centenary Medal of the Australian Government and an Honorary Doctorate of the Delft University of Technology.Wagener, Thorsten: - Thorsten Wagener is Professor of Water and Environmental Security in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol. He is a Vice President of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and associate editor of several other journals. Dr Wagener has been awarded DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) fellowships, the IEMSS Early Career Excellence Prize, Best Paper Awards of the Journal of Environmental Modeling and Software, the US EPA Early Career Award, the Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, and the Education and Public Service Award of the Universities Council for Water Resources.Viglione, Alberto: - Alberto Viglione is a Research Hydrologist at the Vienna University of Technology. During 2004 to 2007 he conducted doctoral research on 'non-supervised statistical methods for the prediction of hydrological variables in ungauged sites' at the Hydraulic Department of the Politecnico of Turin. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers in hydrology, particularly on floods, both from statistical and process-based perspectives, and on hydrological characterisation of river basins. Dr Viglione has developed software for regional frequency analysis and rainfall-runoff modelling under the R environment, which is available online. He also acts as a reviewer for several prestigious journals and has been involved in a number of research projects related to hydrology and flood frequency analysis, in Italy, Austria and for European governments.
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