Polyteknisk Boghandel

Whether processes in the natural world are dependent or independent of the scale at which they operate is one of the major issues in hydrologic science. In this volume, leading hydrologists present their views on the role of scale effects in hydrologic phenomena occurring in a range of field settings, from the land surface to deep fractured rock. Self-contained and thought-provoking chapters cover both theoretical and applied hydrology. They provide critical insights into important topics such as general circulation models, floods, river networks, vadose-zone processes, groundwater transport, and fluid flow through fractured media. This book is intended as an accessible introduction for graduate students and researchers to some of the most significant questions and challenges that will face hydrologic science in the twenty-first century.

Preface;
1. Scale analyses for land surface hydrology;
2. Hillslopes, channels, and landscape scale;
3. Scaling in river networks;
4. Spatial variability and scale invariance in hydrologic regionalization;
5. An emerging technology for scaling field soil water behavior;
6. Scaling invariance and the Richards equation;
7. Scaling of the Richards equation and its application to watershed modeling;
8. Scale issues of heterogeneity in vadose zone hydrology;
9. Stochastic modeling of scale-dependent macrodispersion in the vadose zone;
10. Dilution of nonreactive solutes in heterogeneous porous media;
11. Analysis of scale effects in large-scale transport models;
12. Scale effects in fluid flow through fractured geologic media;
13. Correlation, flow, and transport in multiscale permeability fields;
14. Conditional simulation of geologic media with evolving scales of heterogeneity.