The book, with 156 full color photographs, presents the culmination of a three-year field program in which roughness and other hydraulic parameters were measured. Physical and hydraulic characteristics are presented for 78 New Zealand river and canal reaches which may be used as reference reaches for estimating roughness coefficients in similar channels.

Roughness Characteristics of New Zealand Rivers

Science & Math

Hicks, D. M.

Mason, P. D.

Earth Sciences

Water Resources Publications, LLC

The International Memorial Conference was held in Assisi, Italy, October 2013, and organized by the Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Florisa Melone. The Conference brought together some of the most renown and respected scholars from different parts of the world. More than one hundred participants presented ten keynote lectures and gave a series of presentations. Due to the success of the conference, the decision was made to publish a book illustrating aspects of past, present, and future in hydrology. This book presents: a)    A new perspective of hydro-meteorological monitoring by ground based and satellite, considering that a correct understanding of runoff dynamics cannot be separated from experimental observations; b)   Discharge assessment in natural channels, essential for water resources management and flood forecasting; c)    Hydraulic risk analysis, of paramount importance for forward planning and civil protection activities; d)   Hydrological cycle, water systems  and climate change. This book gives different and useful insights on current advancements in hydrology, which will be of interest to anyone concerned with problems such as global warming and extreme events that are facing the world today.

Advances in Watershed Hydrology

Since 1999 ?A First Course in Fluid Mechanics for Civil Engineers? has been a popular course textbook, offering fewer topics but in greater depth. This expanded 2nd edition still features a civil engineering perspective which are the consistent stress on the concept of head and the use of the total and piezometric head lines as qualitative tools. Emphasis is placed on the Euler equation in natural coordinates and the parallel flow assumption. The Bernoulli equation, derived by integrating the Euler equation along a streamline, is carefully distinguished from the mechanical energy equation, in which loss terms appear. Open channel flow and hydraulic models are treated in more depth than is customary. To maintain a reasonable length, topics such as boundary layers, drag, lift, potential flow, hydraulic machines, pipe networks, computational fluid dynamics, and compressible flow have been condensed or omitted.This 2nd Edition is still intended for a one-semester introduction to fluid mechanics for majors in civil engineering and related fields such as environmental and agricultural engineering. Over the years, this textbook has confirmed the merit of an introductory textbook on fluid mechanics seen from the perspective of students whose main interest is incompressible flow in a gravitational field. While maintaining this approach, this 2nd Edition incorporates many improvements. Perhaps the most significant is the increase in the number of homework problems from 216 to 775, far more than are needed for a semester course, allowing instructors to maintain freshness from semester to semester. This set includes a wide range of problem types in order to appeal to diverse student interests and learning styles. Both SI and U.S. Customary units are used in the problems and throughout the text. A section on ?Advice to the Student? has been added to provide guidance on effective study habits. The perennially confusing topic of uncertainty and significant digits is explained in a new appendix. All of the examples are now set in boxes to make them easier to locate and reference. Clarifications have been made throughout the text to improve comprehension, and new figures and photographs have been added.

First Course In Fluid Mechanics

Donald Gray

The objective of street stormwater drainage design is to warrant efficient and safe traffic movements during the severe storm events. This book is dedicated to the latest developments in: (a) new concepts to analyze the urban catchment hydrology for storm runoff predictions, (b) innovative methods to estimate the street allowable capacities to convey storm runoff, and (c) useful computer models to simulate flow movements in inlets and sewers.
• An excellent textbook for senior designs in Civil Engineering • A useful technical book for Public Works and Urban Infrastructure, • Good reviews of street hydraulics for Urban Drainage • Revised Rational Method for urban catchment analysis, • New concepts of street flow modeling with consideration of safety, • Improved methods for street inlet sizing and storm sewer designs, and • Efficient computer programming and models for sewer system flow analyses, and • Excel tools using Excel spreadsheets and workbook approaches.

Street Drainage Design and Modeling

Guo, James C. Y.

Technology

Hydrology is the science through which man tries to understand the properties and the distribution of water. Frequency analysis is a set of mathematical and statistical techniques used to describe the probability of occurrence of events. 
Every year, floods and droughts cause loss of life and millions of dollar’s worth of damage in many countries of the world. In many cases, these consequences could be reduced either by nonstructural means such as restricting building in flood plains and by limiting water abstractions, or by better design of regulatory structures to reduce flood peaks and increase low flows. In all these cases, the key is knowledge of the distribution of flows in the river. 
Frequency and Risk Analyses in Hydrologydescribes some of the methods currently used to apply frequency analysis techniques to hydrological data in order to provide planners and engineers with figures that they can use in practice to reduce the losses caused by flood and drought. Risk analysis is an extension of the technique used to assess the probability that the estimated design event will differ from the actual event.

Frequency and Risk Analyses in Hydrology

Engineering & Transportation

Kite, Geoff W

Engineering

Environmental Design for Public Projects, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) RANN Program, is relevant today as when it was first published. This book includes public projects such as those providing water, transportation, and energy. Key themes are: (1) civil engineers plan and design large-scale projects that provide the essential infrastructure for society; (2) these projects have evolved in scale and often they dominate human communities and the environment; and (3) the negative impacts of public projects that affect quality-of-life values may be mitigated by integrating the talents of professionals in other disciplines such as architecture, landscape architecture, sociology, welfare economics, ecology, urban planning, law, management, and politics in collaboration with civil engineers. Authors include some 20 professionals from these various disciplines who provided guidelines and examples on how their discipline expertise may be integrated into the outcomes of large-scale public projects. Additionally, 30 other professionals were involved in critiquing the 16 chapters.

Environmental Design for Public Projects

Nature & Ecology

Applied Modeling in Catchment Hydrology

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