Physical Processes and Measurement Devices

Jean-Michel Tanguy, Ministry of Sustainable Development, France.

• Introduction xxiiiJean-Michel TANGUYPART 1. FLOODS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 1Chapter 1. Presentation of the Environmental Hydraulics Treatise 3Jean-Michel TANGUY and Denis DARTUSChapter 2. Flooding and Natural Disasters 41Jean-Baptiste MIGRAINEChapter 3. Climate Change and Hydrology 49Jean-Michel GRÉSILLONPART 2. HYDROMETEOROLOGY 63Chapter 4. Formation of Clouds and Rain 65Véronique DUCROCQChapter 5. Evapotranspiration 75Christelle ALOT and Florence HABETSChapter 6. Runoff 81Eric GAUME, Philippe BATTAGLIA and Rémi WAGNERChapter 7. Drainage Basin 109Isabella ZINChapter 8. Statistical and Semi-Empirical Hydrology. Rain and Flow Analysis 123Philippe BOISPART 3. HYDRAULICS AND RIVER 167Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Free-Surface Flow 169Philippe LEFORT and Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 10. Generation and Propagation of Floods in Urban Areas 223Dominique LAPLACE, Emmanuel MIGNOT and André PAQUIERChapter 11. Quality of Surface Waters 239Patrick GOBLET and Stéphanie EVENChapter 12. Transport of Sediments – Bedload and Suspension 249Kamal EL KADI ABDERREZZAK and André PAQUIERChapter 13. Fluvial Morphodynamics 275Philippe LEFORTChapter 14. Typology of rivers and streams 297Philippe LEFORT and Jean-Michel TANGUYPART 4. ESTUARY, SEA AND COASTLINE 321Chapter 15. Estuaries 323Claude MIGNIOT and Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 16. The Tide 373Bernard SIMONChapter 17. Waves 389Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 18. Storm and storm surge forecasts 419Pierre DANIEL and Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 19. Coastal Zone 427François SABATIER and Jean-Michel TANGUYPART 5. NECESSARY DATA FOR THE MODELING TOOLS 463Chapter 20. Introduction to Measuring Systems 465Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 21. Measurement of the Meteorological Parameters Related to the Water Cycle 469Pierre TABARY, Jean-Michel TANGUY and Pascale DUPUYChapter 22. Topographic and Bathymetric Data 493Annick TEKATLIANChapter 23. Soils, Water and Water in Soils 505Arthur MARCHANDISEChapter 24. Levels and Flowrates in Watercourses, Lakes and Reservoirs 517Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 25. Water Quality Measurements 533Patrick GOBLET and Stéphanie EVENChapter 26. Measuring Ice Cover Thickness 539Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 27. Measurements in Fluvial Sedimentology 549Philippe LEFORT and David GOUTXChapter 28. Measurements in Urban Hydrology 559Philippe BATTAGLIAChapter 29. Measuring Currents, Swells and the Sea Level 579Jean-Michel TANGUYChapter 30. Sedimentological Measurements in a Coastal Environment 583Franck LEVOY and Bernadette TESSIERChapter 31. New Technologies from Space 597List of Authors 605Index 611General Index of Authors 613Summary of Other Volumes in the Series 615

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