Overview
- Various river basin studies are going on these days, such as development of Ganga River basin management plan, Yamuna River basin management plan, Bhagirathi River basin plan, etc. in India and various others in South Asia
- Relevant to the professionals working in the field of water resources and environment
- Relevant to many graduate courses in hydrology, water resources engineering, water resources management
- Addresses environmental flow estimation techniques and water resources conservation and management through cropping pattern changes
- Addresses climate change detection techniques
- Addresses analyses of climatic variables, such as rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind, potential evapotranspiration, etc.
- Addresses water balancing for basins and simple flood estimation techniques, etc.
Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 66)
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About this book
Audience: The manuscript has been designed so that it can be used as a reference for river basin studies. The book will be useful to engineers, agricultural scientists, environmentalists, planners, managers, and administrators who are concerned with water resources.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Yamuna River Basin
Book Subtitle: Water Resources and Environment
Authors: Raveendra Kumar Rai, Alka Upadhyay, C. Shekhar P. Ojha, Vijay P. Singh
Series Title: Water Science and Technology Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2001-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2000-8Published: 22 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3699-3Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2001-5Published: 25 November 2011
Series ISSN: 0921-092X
Series E-ISSN: 1872-4663
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 478
Topics: Hydrogeology, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, general, Climate Change