Where the River Flows : : Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways / / Sean W. Fleming.
The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and usRivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Why Rivers Are Where They Are
- 3. How Do Rivers Remember?
- 4. Clouds Talking to Fish: The Information Content of Rain
- 5. Searching for Buried Treasure
- 6. The Digital Rainbow
- 7. Landslides, Fractals, and Artificial Life
- 8. The Sky's Not the Limit
- 9. The Hydrologist's Final Exam: Watershed Modeling
- 10. Epilogue
- Some References and Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index