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Hydrological Cycles, Models, and Applications to Forecasting

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Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting

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This chapter presents an overview of hydrology, water cycle, land surface processes (e.g., precipitation, snow, glaciers and frozen soils, evapotranspiration, surface and subsurface runoff, overland and river flow routing), and hydrologic modeling and its history. The chapter is concluded with an outlook for future.

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  1. Jal Vigyan Bhawan, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Sharad K. Jain

  2. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

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  1. Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Qingyun Duan

  2. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, ECMWF, Reading, UK

    Florian Pappenberger

  3. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA

    Andy Wood

  4. Department of Meteorology, Reading University, Reading, UK

    Hannah L. Cloke

  5. U.S. National Weather Service (retired), Annapolis, MD, USA

    John C. Schaake

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Jain, S.K., Singh, V.P. (2019). Hydrological Cycles, Models, and Applications to Forecasting. In: Duan, Q., Pappenberger, F., Wood, A., Cloke, H., Schaake, J. (eds) Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39925-1_20

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