Introduction to physical hydrology / edited by Richard J. Chorley

First published in 1969. | This edition first published in 2019.

Includes index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The world hydrological cycle -- The basin hydrological cycle -- The drainage basin as the fundamental geomorphic unit -- Precipitation -- The assessment of precipitation -- Evaporation and transpiration -- Soil Moisture -- Infiltration, throughflow and overland flow -- Ground water -- Open channel flow -- The hydrology of snow and ice -- The flood hydrograph -- River Regimes -- Long term precipitation trends.

Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume ‘Water, Earth and Man’ (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography. This volume brings together the systematic theme of physical hydrology while maintaining a link with the original book which emphasised the benefit of the study of water being considered in the widest sense within the physical and social environments.