附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-357) and index.
THE HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM: System concepts -- Modeling hydrologic systems -- DIMENSIONS, DATA AND GRAPHS: Dimensions -- Data precision -- Continuous and discrete data -- Level of measurement -- Hydrologic data series -- Graphs and graphing -- STATISTICS, PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: Describing data -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- Probability functions -- Probability and the normal curve -- Probability distributions -- Fitting probability distributions -- Testing goodness-of-fit -- Time variations in data -- THE ATMOSPHERIC SUBSYSTEM: Atmospheric water vapor -- Precipitation processes -- Weather modification -- Adiabatic processes -- Precipitation measurement -- Establishing a precipitation gage -- Missing precipitation data -- Averaging precipitation over an area -- Checking temporal consistency of a precipitation record -- Frequency analysis of precipitation -- Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) -- Risk -- EVAPORATION: The evaporation process -- Methods for estimating evaporation -- EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: The evapotranspiration process -- Methods for estimating evapotranspiration -- Modeling evapotranspiration under limited soil moisture conditions -- Vegetation modification -- INFILTRATION AND SOIL MOISTURE: Factors controlling infiltration -- Infiltration rate versus cumulative infiltration -- Infiltration measurement and estimation -- Other methods for estimating infiltration -- Ponding time and runoff -- Soil water -- GROUNDWATER: Groundwater defined -- Aquifers -- Properties of aquifer materials -- Groundwater head -- Groundwater flow -- Groundwater and wells -- Groundwater flow to wells -- Two and three dimensional flow -- Groundwater models -- Groundwater quality and contaminant-transport -- Wellhead protection -- Groundwater regions in the United States -- THE WATER BALANCE: Components of the water balance -- The water balance procedure -- Applications of the water balance -- BASIN MORPHOMETRY AND RUNOFF: Basin morphom
