Front Matter -- Colour Plates -- Terrestrial Hydrometeorology and the Global Water Cycle -- Water Vapor in the Atmosphere -- Vertical Gradients in the Atmosphere -- Surface Energy Fluxes -- Terrestrial Radiation -- Soil Temperature and Heat Flux -- Measuring Surface Heat Fluxes -- General Circulation Models -- Global Scale Influences on Hydrometeorology -- Formation of Clouds -- Formation of Precipitation -- Precipitation Measurement and Observation -- Precipitation Analysis in Time -- Precipitation Analysis in Space -- Mathematical and Conceptual Tools of Turbulence -- Equations of Atmospheric Flow in the ABL -- Equations of Turbulent Flow in the ABL -- Observed ABL Profiles: Higher Order Moments -- Turbulent Closure, K Theory, and Mixing Length -- Surface Layer Scaling and Aerodynamic Resistance -- Canopy Processes and Canopy Resistances -- Whole-Canopy Interactions -- Daily Estimates of Evaporation -- Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer Schemes -- Sensitivity to Land Surface Exchanges -- Example Questions and Answers -- Index.

Includes index.

"Both hydrologists and meteorologists need to speak a common scientific language, and this has given rise to the new scientific discipline of hydrometeorology, which deals with the transfer of water and energy across the land/atmosphere interface. Terrestrial Hydrometeorology is the first graduate-level text with sufficient breadth and depth to be used in hydrology departments to teach relevant aspects of meteorology, and in meteorological departments to teach relevant aspects of hydrology, and to serve as an introductory text to teach the emerging discipline of hydrometeorology. The book will be essential reading for graduate students studying surface water hydrology, meteorology, and hydrometeorology. It can also be used in advanced undergraduate courses, and will be welcomed by academic and professional hydrologists and meteorologists worldwide"--Provided by publisher.

"This book on Terrestrial Hydrometeorology is needed because there is currently no single graduate level text with sufficient breadth across the hydrological and meteorological sciences that provides understanding with sufficient depth and detail in both disciples for use (a) in hydrology departments to teach relevant aspects of meteorology; (b) in meteorological departments to teach relevant aspects of surface hydrology; and (c) to teach the emerging discipline of hydrometeorology"--Provided by publisher.

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