Streamflow Measurement - Hardcover

Herschy, Reginald W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415413427 ISBN 13: 9780415413428

Publisher: CRC Press, 2008

Synopsis

‘Too little water or too much’? In either case streamflow measurement is crucial. Climate change could significant affect water resources and flood management. Streamflow measurement is necessary for efficient water management.

This third edition deals with all the main current methods for measuring the flow in rivers and open channels, in accordance with ISO and CEN standards and to satisfy the current requirements of the International Organization for Standardization and the European Union’s Water Directive. A new chapter on the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) is included; the chapter on uncertainties has been redrafted in accordance with the recent International Standard on uncertainties in measurement (GUM); the chapters on the Stage-Fall-Discharge method and Hydrometric Data Processing have also been updated; and a new section on flood flows has been added.

About this title

About the Author:

Reginald W. Herschy is a Former Government Water Engineer and Hydrologist and is presently Chairman of the British Standards Institution Committee on Hydrometry.

Review:

'The book covers both traditional and new methods of streamflow data collection. This second edition has preserved the objectives and structure of the first edition. However, the scope has been increased by the addition of material on the hydrometric management of the measurement of flow in pipes and of flow through orifices and sluices. As with the first edition, this book provides hydrologists engaged in hydrometry with the complete reference from which to establish accurate and reliable flow measurement information.' - Hydrological Sciences Journal

'...this book should provide a useful reference for civil engineer, hydrologists...concerned environmentalists from which to secure reliable information about streamflow.' - Environmental Engineering

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415413427
• ISBN 13: 9780415413428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 510