Snow and glacier hydrology / by Pratap Singh and Vijay P. Singh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: Preliminaries. -- vol. 1. Introduction. -- vol. 2. Atmosphere and its Components. Part II: Properties and Measurement of Snow and Snow Cover. -- vol. 3. Properties of Snow and Ice. -- vol. 4. Measurement of Snow. -- vol. 5. Measurement of Depth, Water Equivalent, and Area of Snow Cover. Part III: Snowmelt and its Estimation. -- vol. 6. Energy Exchange Processes. -- vol. 7. Streamflow Hydrograph. Part IV: Snowmelt-Runoff Modeling and Forecasting. -- vol. 8. Snowmelt-Runoff Modeling. -- vol. 9. Snowmelt Models. Part V: Hydrological Aspects of Glaciers. -- vol. 10. Glacier Characteristics and Mass Balance. -- vol. 11. Glacial Melting. -- vol. 12. Glacial Storage and Drainage Characteristics. -- vol. 13. Erosion and Sediment Yield. -- vol. 14. Streamflow Measurements. Appendix A. Author Index. Subject Index.

This book provides an updated discussion of some aspects of snow and glacier hydrology, drawing on the results of investigations in recent years in Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas, Alps, Rocky Mountains and other mountains of the world. It is hoped that the book can serve as a source of reference at the senior undergraduate or beginning graduate level and that it will stimulate further interest and research in this important part of the hydrologic cycle. The book should be useful to those who are engaged in the practice of agricultural and civil engineering, earth sciences, environmental sciences and engineering, ecosystem management, forest and watershed sciences, and others. The subject matter of this book is divided into five parts, containing fourteen chapters. Part I is concerned with preliminaries, including the scope and importance of snow and glaciers, general characteristics of the atmosphere, precipitation mechanisms, formation and growth of crystals, classification of snow crystals, and chemistry of snow. Part II deals with physical, thermal, and optical properties of snow and ice; techniques for measurement of snow; measuring gauges, comparison of gauge measurements, measurement networks and telemetry, and measurement of depth, water equivalent and area of snow cover, and areal extent of snow cover. Part III discusses energy balance, snowmelt indices, observed maximum snowmelt rates, streamflow hydrograph, classification of streams, delineation of runoff components, hydrograph-time characteristics, determination of recession constants, and baseflow separation. Part IV deals with snowmelt-runoff modeling and forecasting, storage potential, time delay in runoff generation, forecasting of snowmelt runoff, simulation accuracy, and snowmelt models such as SSARR, SRM, UBC, PRMS, and HBV models. Part V of the book describes the classification of glaciers, inventory of glaciers, spatial characteristics of glaciers, glacial movement, and depth of glaciers and their measurement, glacial melting, glacial-melt runoff, forecasting of glacial-melt runoff, glacial-melt runoff models, application of isotopes in glacier studies, sedimentation in arctic and temperate glaciers, sampling and analysis of suspended sediment, grain-size distribution in glacier-melt streams, sediment modeling, streamflow measurements, selection of discharge observation sites, measurement of stage, velocity, and discharge, stage-discharge relation, hydraulic geometry, and streamflow network. Contents

The contributions are intended to be as accessible as possible to a wide readership of academics and professionals with diverse backgrounds such as earth sciences, subsurface hydrology, petroleum engineering, and soil physics.

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