Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas

Based on a joint effort, which united scientists around the world to exchange research ideas and results, Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas provides a comprehensive overview of the interaction of hydrological and climatological processes in mountain environments. This book provides an understanding of present experimental and theoretical work on hydrology and climatology in mountain areas, bridging the gap between current research in the two disciplines with a common focus on mountains. It emphasises the need for interdisciplinary work in this field and the importance of a modern research framework for such studies.
Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas covers a large diversity of climatological and hydrological environments, with contributions from countries worldwide. The wide range of topics are included within five main themes: snow and ice melt, soil water and permafrost, evapotranspiration and water balance, coupling meteorology and hydrology, climate change impact and mountain hydrology.This book will emphasise issues of hydrological and meteorological coupling in mountain areas.Case studies are taken from mountainous regions in Europe, North America and Central Asia.Test sites include mountain ranges in the Alps, Giant Mountains, Himalayas, Andes, Norwegian Mountains and Caucasus.
This is essential reading for postgraduates and researchers working in hydrology or climatology/meteorology related mountain topics. Also suitable for professional organisations, such as geographical organisations and societies, ministries of science, water authorities, planning agencies and development agencies. Would be of interest to higher–level undergraduates for courses on topics such as Water Management in Mountain Catchments or Mountain Hydrology, Meteorology or Climate Change.


Spis treści:
List of Contributors.
List of Symbols.
Abbreviations.
Intro duction: 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: An Introduction (Roger C. Barry).
PART I: SNOW AND ICE MELT.
2. Use of Positive Degree–Day Methods for calculating snow and ice melt and discharge in glaciarized basins in the Langtang valley, central Nepal (R. B. Kayastha, Y. Ageta and K. Fujita).
3. Surface energy balance of high altitude glaciers in the central Andes: the effect of snow penitents (Javier Corripio and Ross Purves).
4. Using subgrid parameterisation and a forest canopy climate model for improving forecasts of snowmelt runoff (Ulrich Strasser and Pierre Etchevers).
5. Assessment of snow–covered areas using air temperatures during melt in a mountainous basin (Pratap Singh and Lars Bengtsson).
PART II: SOIL WATER AND PERMAFROST.
6. Permafrost monitoring in high mountain areas using a coupled geophysical and meteorological approach (Christian Hauck, Daniel Vonder Mühll and Martin Hoelzle).
7. Effects of frozen soil on the groundwater recharge in alpine areas (Daniel Bayard, Manfred Stähli).
8. Water balance in surface soil: analytical solutions of flow equations and measurements in the Alpine Toce valley (M. Menziani, S. Pugnaghi, S. Vincenzi, R. Santangelo).
9. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and water retention relationships 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. Nachtnebel and M. Sivapalan).
11. Water relations of Old Growth Douglas Fir Stands (Link, T., G. Flerchinger and D. Marks).
12. Comparison of evapotranspiration and condensation measurements between the giant mountains and the alps (Carmen de Jong, Marco Mundelius and Krzysztof Migala).
13. Hydrology and ecology of mountain basins in central Norway (J. Löffler and O. Röβler).
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 Hydrological Models for Flash Flood Simulation (Charles A. Lin, Lei Wen, Diane Chaumont and Michel Béland).
16. Operational weather radar assessment of convective precipitation as an input to flood modelling in mountainous basins (Stefan Uhlenbrook and Dörthe Tetzlaft).
17. Geomorphological Zoning: An improvement to coupling alpine hydrology and meteorology? (Carmen de Jong, Peter Ergenzinger, Martin Borufka, Arne Köcher and Martin Dresen).
PART V: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT AND MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY.
18. The influence of glacier retreat on water yield from high mountain areas: comparison of Alps and Central Asia (Wilfried Hagg and Ludwig Braun).
19. Snowmelt under different temperature increase scenarios in the Swiss Alps (Franziska Keller and Stéphane Goyette).
20. Climate Variability, Water Resources, and Hydrologic Extremes – Modelling the Water and Energy Budgets (Osman Yildiz and Ana Barros).
Index.


Okładka tylna:
Based on a joint effort, which united scientists around the world to exchange research ideas and results, Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas provides a comprehensive overview of the interaction of hydrological and climatological processes in mountain environments. This book provides an u nderstanding of present experimental and theoretical work on hydrology and climatology in mountain areas, bridging the gap between current research in the two disciplines with a common focus on mountains. It emphasises the need for interdisciplinary work in this field and the importance of a modern research framework for such studies.
Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas covers a large diversity of climatological and hydrological environments, with contributions from countries worldwide. The wide range of topics are included within five main themes: snow and ice melt, soil water and permafrost, evapotranspiration and water balance, coupling meteorology and hydrology, climate change impact and mountain hydrology.This book will emphasise issues of hydrological and meteorological coupling in mountain areas.Case studies are taken from mountainous regions in Europe, North America and Central Asia.Test sites include mountain ranges in the Alps, Giant Mountains, Himalayas, Andes, Norwegian Mountains and Caucasus.
This is essential reading for postgraduates and researchers working in hydrology or climatology/meteorology related mountain topics. Also suitable for professional organisations, such as geographical organisations and societies, ministries of science, water authorities, planning agencies and development agencies. Would be of interest to higher–level undergraduates for courses on topics such as Water Management in Mountain Catchments or Mountain Hydrology, Meteorology or Climate Change.