Handbook of Engineering Hydrology

Engineering Hydrology, sometimes called hydrologic engineering, is an engineering specialty that focuses on water resources. Engineering Hydrology is chiefly concerned with the flow and storage of water including urban drainage, water supply, wastewater treatment, river management and coastal protection. Hydrological engineering also focuses on preventing floods and lessening the effects of floods, droughts and other natural disasters. In this book, we try to cover different aspects of Engineering Hydrology. Firstly, we discuss the role of hydrological studies for the development of the TDPS System and an application of filtered renewal processes. Then we present the role of the dominant modes of precipitation variability over Eastern Africa in modulating the hydrology of Lake Victoria and the review of GRACE Data Applications in terrestrial hydrology monitoring. Relative contributions of forest change and climatic variability to hydrology in large watersheds and climate change impact on the hydrology of a typical watershed in the Tianshan Mountains are also discussed.

In the middle part of the book, we focus on impacts of forest fires and climate variability on the hydrology of an Alpine medium sized catchment in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and scenario-based impact assessment of land use/cover and climate changes on watershed hydrology in Heihe river basin of Northwest China. Then hydrologic responses to land Use change in the Upper Fenhe River Watershed and an analysis of land use change dynamics and its impacts on hydrological processes in the Jialing River Basin are also discussed. We also try to present geographic concerns on flood climate and flood hydrology in monsoon-dominated Damodar river basin of Eastern India and the use of H-SAF soil moisture products for Operational Hydrology along with flood risk management in remote and impoverished Areas of Haiti. The last chapters of the book describe remote sensing-based assessment of the variability of winter and summer precipitation in the Pamirs and their effects on hydrology and hazards using harmonic time series analysis. We also try to find out the hydrological excitation of polar motion derived from GRACE gravity field solutions and spatial evaluation of heavy metals concentrations in the surface sediment of Taihu Lake. At the end, we describe National scale rainfall-runoff modelling with demonstration of a hydrological modelling framework and large-Scale hydrological modeling and decision-making for agricultural water consumption and allocation in the main stem tarim river of China.