Hydrological Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

Howard Wheater is Head of Environmental and Water Resource Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, and co-Chair of UNESCO's Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands (GWADI). Soroosh Sorooshian is Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine. K. D. Sharma is Director of the National Institute of Hydrology, India, and a member of UNESCO's Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands (GWADI) Steering Committee. He is also a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Winand Staring Centre, the Netherlands.

Preface: Howard Wheater, Soroosh Sorooshian and K. D. Sharma; 1. Modelling hydrological processes in arid and semi-arid areas - an introduction Howard Wheater; 2. Global precipitation estimation from satellite imagery using artificial neural networks Soroosh Sorooshian, K.-L. Hsu, B. Imam and Y. Hong; 3. Modelling semi-arid and arid hydrology and water resources - the southern Africa experience D. A. Hughes; 4. Use of the IHACRES rainfall-runoff model in arid and semi-arid regions B. F. W. Croke and A. J. Jakeman; 5. KINEROS2 and the AGWA modelling framework D. J. Semmens, D. C. Goodrich, C. L. Unkrich, R. E. Smith, D. A. Woolhiser and S. N. Miller; 6. A distributed spatial sediment delivery model for arid regions K. D. Sharma; 7. The Modular Modeling System (MMS): a toolbox for water and environmental resources management G. H. Leavesley, S. L. Markstrom, R. J. Viger and L. E. Hay; 8. Calibration, uncertainty and regional analysis of conceptual rainfall-runoff models Howard Wheater, T. Wagener and N. McIntyre; 9. Real-time flow forecasting P. C. Young; 10. Real-time flood forecasting - Indian experience R. D. Singh; 11. Groundwater modeling in hard-rock terrain in semi-arid areas: experience from India S. Ahmed, J.-C. Maréchal, E. Ledoux and G. de Marsily; Appendix.