Cover -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Contents -- Part A Fundamental Hydrology -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 World's Water Resources -- 1.2 Water Resources of India -- 1.3 Hydrological Study of Tapti Basin (Central India) -- 1.4 Hydrology And Hydrologic Cycle -- 1.5 Forms of Precipitation -- 1.6 Scope of Hydrology -- 1.7 Hydrological Data -- 1.8 Hydrologic Equation -- Chapter 2. Precipitation -- 2.1 Types of Precipitation -- 2.2 Measurement of Precipitation -- 2.3 Radars -- 2.4 Rain-Gauge Density -- 2.6 Mean Areal Depth of Precipitation (Pave) -- 2.7 Optimum Rain-Gauge Network Design -- 2.8 Depth-Area-Duration (Dad) Curves -- 2.9 Graphical Representation of Rainfall -- 2.10 Analysis of Rainfall Data -- 2.11 Mean And Median -- 2.12 Moving Averages Curve -- 2.13 Design Storm And PMP -- 2.14 Snow Pack And Snow Melt -- Chapter 3. Water Losses -- 3.1 Water Losses -- 3.2 Evaporation -- 3.3 Evaporation Pans -- 3.4 Soil Evaporation -- 3.5 Unsaturated Flow -- 3.6 Transpiration -- 3.7 Evapotranspiration -- 3.8 Hydrometeorology -- 3.9 Infiltration -- 3.10 Infiltration Indices -- 3.11 Supra Rain Technique -- 3.12 Watershed Leakage -- 3.13 Water Balance -- Chapter 4. Runoff -- 4.1 Components of Stream Flow -- 4.2 Catchment Characteristics -- 4.3 Mean and Median Elevation -- 4.4 Classification of Streams -- 4.5 Isochrones -- 4.6 Factors Affecting Runoff -- 4.7 Estimation of Runoff -- Chapter 5. Hydrographs -- 5.1 Hydrograph Components -- 5.2 Separation of Streamflow Components -- 5.3 Hydrograph Separation -- 5.4 Unit Hydrograph -- 5.5 Unit Hydrograph From Complex Storms -- 5.6 S-Curve Method -- 5.7 Bernard's Distribution Graph -- 5.8 Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph -- 5.9 Synthetic Unit Hydrographs -- 5.10 Transposing Unit Hydrographs -- 5.11 Application of Unit Hydrograph -- Chapter 6. Stream Gauging.

6.1 Methods of Measuring Stream Flow -- 6.2 Current Meter Gaugings -- 6.3 Stage-Discharge-Rating Curve -- 6.4 Selection of Site for a Stream Gauging Station -- Chapter 7. Ground Water -- 7.1 Types of Aquifers and Formations -- 7.2 Confined and Unconfined Aquifers -- 7.3 Darcy's Law -- 7.4 Transmissibility -- 7.5 Well Hydraulics -- 7.6 Specific Capacity -- 7.7 Cavity Wells -- 7.8 Hydraulics of Open Wells -- 7.9 Construction of Open Wells -- 7.10 Spacing of Wells -- Chapter 8. Floods-Estimation and Control -- 8.1 Size of Floods -- 8.2 Estimation of Peak Flood -- 8.4 Flood Frequency Studies -- 8.5 Encounter Probability -- 8.6 Methods of Flood Control -- 8.7 Soil Conservation Measures -- 8.8 Flood Control Economics -- 8.9 Flood Forecasting and Warning -- Chapter 9. Flood Routing -- 9.1 Reservoir Routing -- 9.2 Stream Flow Routing -- Chapter 10. Storage, Pondage and Flow Duration Curves -- 10.1 Reservoir Mass Curve and Storage -- 10.2 Flow Duration Curves -- 10.3 Pondage -- Chapter 11. Reservoir Sedimentation -- 11.1 Sediment Movement and Deposition -- 11.2 Reduction in Reservoir Capacity -- 11.3 Reservoir Sedimentation Control -- Chapter 12. Arid, Semi-Arid and Humid Regions -- 12.1 Arid Regions -- 12.2 Semi-Arid Regions -- 12.3 Humid Regions -- Part B-Advanced Topics -- Chapter 13. Linear Regression -- 13.1 Fitting Regression Equation -- 13.2 Standard Error of Estimate -- 13.3 Linear Multiple Regression -- 13.4 Coaxial Graphical Correlation of Rainfall Runoff -- Chapter 14. Statistical, and Probability Analysis of Hydrological Data -- 14.1 Elements of Statistics -- 14.2 Probability of Hydrologic Events -- Chapter 15. Flood Frequency-Probability and Stochastic Methods -- 15.1 Flood Frequency Methods -- 15.2 Stochastic Method -- 15.3 Stochastic Modelling by the Partial Duration Series -- 15.4 Annual Flood Peaks-River Ganga.

15.5 Regional Flood-Frequency Analysis (RFFA ) -- Chapter 16. Mathematical Models in Hydrology -- 16.1 Type of Mathematical Models -- 16.2 Methods of Determining IUH -- 16.3 Synthetic Stream Flow -- 16.4 Flow at Ungauged Sites by Multiple Regression -- 16.5 Reservoir Mass Curve -- 16.6 Residual Mass Curve -- 16.7 Selection of Reservoir Capacity -- 16.8 Mathematical Model -- Chapter 17. Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph (IUH) -- 17.1 IUH for a Basin -- 17.2 Derivation of IUH -- 17.3 Other Methods of Derivation of IUH -- 17.4 Nash Conceptual Model -- 17.5 Clark's Model -- 17.6 Drawing Isochrones and Time-Area Diagram (TAD) -- 17.7 Clark's Method -- Chapter 18. Cloud Seeding -- 18.1 Conditions for Cloud Seeding -- 18.2 Cloud Seeding Technique -- 18.3 Cloud Seeding Operation -- 18.4 Recent Case History -- Appendix -- Selected References -- Bibliography -- Index.