Overview
- Discusses flood, drought, water resources & water quality forecasts
- Provides international examples in the application of techniques
- Focuses on end-to-end and impact-based forecasting and warning
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An award-winning text introducing the latest operational hydrometeorological forecasting and warning techniques for flood, drought, reservoir, hydropower, irrigation, water supply and water pollution applications.
Hydrometeorology: Forecasting and Applications is the latest edition of this award-winning book intended for practicing engineers and scientists. It also provides useful background for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in engineering, earth sciences, environmental sciences, geography, meteorology and hydrology.
Operational examples include applications from the USA, UK, the Netherlands, Bangladesh and Nepal. Throughout, there is a focus on end-to-end warning systems, forecast uncertainty and risk-based and impact-based approaches. Hydrological forecasting topics include rainfall-runoff, flow routing, data assimilation, forecast verification and ensemble techniques. There are also updates to the text on weather radar, satellite precipitation estimates, hydrometry, low cost monitoring, numerical weather prediction, demand forecasting and dissemination of warnings, including the role of social media and citizen science.
Applications include national and community based flood warning systems, flash flood guidance, famine and drought early warning systems, reservoir operations, and surface water, debris flow, ice jam, bathing water and harmful algal bloom alerts. Seasonal forecasting, land surface and global hydrological models are now discussed in more detail, including the opportunities from ‘Big Data’ and artificial intelligence, and a new chapter discusses approaches to predicting the hydrological impacts of climate change. The extensive sets of references have been revised and updated.
“There are few books that have ever attempted to discuss all aspects of hydrometeorology in one volume. This one does so.”
From a review of the 1st edition in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Kevin Sene FRGS, FRMetS, CEng (MICE) is a scientist and writer with wide experience in flood risk management, water resources and hydrometeorology. His previous publications include books on flood warning, forecasting and emergency response and flash flood forecasting and warning (Springer, 2008, 2013).
Keywords
- Flood Forecasting
- Flood Warning
- Drought Early Warning
- Operational Flow Forecasting
- Meteorological Observations
- Catchment Monitoring
- Meteorological Forecasts
- Numerical Weather Prediction
- Nowcasting, Hydrological Forecasts
- Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Systems
- Hydrometry
- Demand Forecasts
- Impact-Based Forecasting
- Citizen Science
- Climate Change
- Artificial Intelligence, Reservoirs
- Water Resources
- Water Quality
- Decision Support
- Data Assimilation
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kevin Sene FRGS, FRMetS, CEng (MICE) is a scientist and writer with wide experience in flood risk management, water resources and hydrometeorology. His previous publications include books on flood warning, forecasting and emergency response and flash flood forecasting and warning (Springer, 2008, 2013). He is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Environmental Engineering with Lancaster University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hydrometeorology
Book Subtitle: Forecasting and Applications
Authors: Kevin Sene
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58269-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58268-4Published: 06 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58271-4Due: 20 July 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58269-1Published: 05 July 2024
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIX, 516
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour
Topics: Water, general, Natural Hazards, Atmospheric Sciences