Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas (eBook)

Carmen de Jong and David N. Collins are the authors of Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas, published by Wiley.

List of Contributors.

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Introduction: Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas(Carmen de Jong, David Collins, Roberto Ranzi, Roger Barry,George Leavesley, Bachhi etc.).

1. Alpine Climate Change and Cryospheric Responses: AnIntroduction (Roger C. Barry).

PART I: SNOW AND ICE MELT.

2. Use of Positive Degree-Day Methods for calculatingsnow and ice melt and discharge in glaciarized basins in theLangtang valley, central Nepal (R. B. Kayastha, Y. Ageta andK. Fujita).

3. Surface energy balance of high altitude glaciers inthe central Andes: the effect of snow penitents (JavierCorripio and Ross Purves).

4. Using subgrid parameterisation and a forest canopyclimate model for improving forecasts of snowmelt runoff(Ulrich Strasser and Pierre Etchevers).

5. Assessment of snow-covered areas using airtemperatures during melt in a mountainous basin (PratapSingh and Lars Bengtsson).

PART II: SOIL WATER AND PERMAFROST.

6. Permafrost monitoring in high mountain areas using acoupled geophysical and meteorological approach (ChristianHauck, Daniel Vonder Mühll and Martin Hoelzle).

7. Effects of frozen soil on the groundwater recharge inalpine areas (Daniel Bayard, Manfred Stähli).

8. Water balance in surface soil: analytical solutionsof flow equations and measurements in the Alpine Toce valley(M. Menziani, S. Pugnaghi, S. Vincenzi, R. Santangelo).

9. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and water retentionrelationships for Alpine mountain soils (S. Barontini, A.Clerici, R. Ranzi and B. Bacchi).

PART III: EVAPORTRANSPIRATION AND WATER BALANCE.

10. Water balance modeling with fuzzy parameterizations:application to an Alpine catchment (G. Eder, H.P. Nachtnebeland M. Sivapalan).

11. Water relations of Old Growth Douglas Fir Stands(Link, T., G. Flerchinger and D. Marks).

12. Comparison of evapotranspiration and condensationmeasurements between the giant mountains and the alps(Carmen de Jong, Marco Mundelius and Krzysztof Migala).

13. Hydrology and ecology of mountain basins in centralNorway (J. Löffler and O. Röbetaler).

PART IV: COUPLING METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY.

14. Runoff and Floods in the Alps: An Overview(B. Bacchi and V. Villi).

15. The use of Coupled Meteorological and HydrologicalModels for Flash Flood Simulation (Charles A. Lin, Lei Wen,Diane Chaumont and Michel Béland).

16. Operational weather radar assessment of convectiveprecipitation as an input to flood modelling in mountainousbasins (Stefan Uhlenbrook and Dörthe Tetzlaft).

17. Geomorphological Zoning: An improvement to couplingalpine hydrology and meteorology? (Carmen de Jong, PeterErgenzinger, Martin Borufka, Arne Köcher and MartinDresen).

PART V: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT AND MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY.

18. The influence of glacier retreat on water yield fromhigh mountain areas: comparison of Alps and Central Asia(Wilfried Hagg and Ludwig Braun).

19. Snowmelt under different temperature increasescenarios in the Swiss Alps (Franziska Keller andStéphane Goyette).

20. Climate Variability, Water Resources, and HydrologicExtremes - Modelling the Water and Energy Budgets (OsmanYildiz and Ana Barros).

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"This volume should provide a useful guide to those interested in learning more about climate and hydrology in mountains." (Mountain Media, February 2006)

"... professional academics and postgraduate students... will find this book appealing and useful." (South African Geographical Journal, September 2006)