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Preface for the Second Edition | |
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Preface for the First Edition | |
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Introducing the Medium | |
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Water as a fluid | |
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The physics of fluids | |
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Physical properties of water | |
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How to Study a Stream | |
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Focusing on physical habitat | |
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The planning process | |
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Strategic sampling | |
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Know your limitations | |
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Examples of how and how not to conduct a study | |
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Potential Sources of Data | |
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Data types | |
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Physical data sources, format, and quality | |
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Maps: finding those spatial places | |
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Photographs and other remotely sensed data | |
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Getting to Know Your Stream | |
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General character | |
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Catchment characteristics | |
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Streamflow hydrographs | |
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How does this stream measure up? | |
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How to Have a Field Day and Still Collect Some Useful Information | |
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Venturing into the field | |
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Surveying: a brief introduction | |
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Methods of measuring areal extent | |
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Surveying streams | |
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Measurement of water level or stage | |
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Measurement of discharge (streamflow | |
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Substrates and sediments: sampling and monitoring methods | |
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Substrates and sediments: analysis of physical properties | |
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Water quality | |
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Water at Rest and in Motion | |
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General | |
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Hydrostatics: the restful nature of water | |
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Studying the flow of fluids | |
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Narrowing the focus: flow of a viscous fluid | |
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The microenvironment: flow near solid surfaces | |
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Open-channel hydraulics: the macro-environment | |
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It's Sedimentary, Watson! | |
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Introduction to stream channels, streambeds and transported materials | |
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Stream-shaping processes | |
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The ins and outs of channel topography | |
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Sediment motion | |
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Sediment yield from a catchment | |
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Dissecting Data with a Statistical Scope | |
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Introduction | |
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Streamflow frequency analysis | |
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Flow-duration curves | |
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Flow-spell analysis | |
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Extrapolating from the known to the unknown | |
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Numerical taxonomy: multivariate analysis techniques | |
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Basic Statistics | |
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References | |