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| Welcome to the book | |
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| Table of SI units | |
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| Figure acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Major water types | |
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| The hydrological cycle | |
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| Drainage basin hydrological processes | |
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| The water balance | |
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| Summary | |
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| Atmospheric water | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cloud formation | |
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| Generation of precipitation | |
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| Precipitation types | |
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| Measuring precipitation | |
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| Areal precipitation | |
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| Evaporation types and measurement | |
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| Estimating evaporation: Penman-Monteith | |
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| Summary | |
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| Groundwater | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Misconceptions | |
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| Drilling a hole … | |
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| Bernoulli to the aid | |
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| Aqui… | |
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| Effective infiltration velocity and infiltration rate | |
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| The soil as a wet sponge | |
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| Brothers in science: Darcy and Ohm | |
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| Refracting the water | |
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| Keep it simple and confined | |
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| Continuity and its consequences | |
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| Going Dutch | |
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| Flow nets | |
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| Groundwater flow regimes and systems | |
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| Fresh and saline: Ghijben Herzberg | |
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| Groundwater hydraulics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Soil water | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Negative water pressures | |
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| Determining the total potential | |
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| The soil as a dry filter paper or a wet sponge | |
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| The soil moisture characteristic | |
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| Drying and wetting: hysteresis | |
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| Unsaturated water flow | |
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| Moving up: capillary rise and evaporation | |
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| Moving down: infiltration and percolation | |
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| Preferential flow | |
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| Summary | |
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| Surface water | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bernoulli revisited | |
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| Measuring stage, water velocity, and discharge | |
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| Hydrograph analysis | |
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| Conceptual rainfall-runoff models | |
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| Variable source area hydrology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Conceptual toolkit | |
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| If You cannot do the maths | |
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| Mathematical differentiation and integration | |
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| Quick reference to some differentiation rules | |
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| Mathematics toolboxes | |
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| Confined aquifer: horizontal flow | |
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| Unconfined aquifer: horizontal flow | |
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| Leaky aquifer: inverse landscape | |
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| Unconfined aquifer with recharge: canals with equal water levels | |
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| Unconfined aquifer with recharge: streams with different water levels | |
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| Confined aquifer: radial-symmetric flow | |
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| Unconfined aquifer: radical-symmetric flow | |
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| Derivation of the Richards equation | |
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| Other forms of the Richards equation | |
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| Open channel flow | |
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| Answers to the exercise | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |