Table of Contents
Introduction xxiii Jean-Michel TANGUY PART 1. FLOODS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 1
Chapter 1. Presentation of the Environmental Hydraulics Treatise 3 Jean-Michel TANGUY and Denis DARTUS
Chapter 2. Flooding and Natural Disasters 41 Jean-Baptiste MIGRAINE
Chapter 3. Climate Change and Hydrology 49 Jean-Michel GRÉSILLON
PART 2. HYDROMETEOROLOGY 63
Chapter 4. Formation of Clouds and Rain 65 Véronique DUCROCQ
Chapter 5. Evapotranspiration 75 Christelle ALOT and Florence HABETS
Chapter 6. Runoff 81 Eric GAUME, Philippe BATTAGLIA and Rémi WAGNER
Chapter 7. Drainage Basin 109 Isabella ZIN
Chapter 8. Statistical and Semi-Empirical Hydrology. Rain and Flow Analysis 123 Philippe BOIS
PART 3. HYDRAULICS AND RIVER 167
Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Free-Surface Flow 169 Philippe LEFORT and Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 10. Generation and Propagation of Floods in Urban Areas 223 Dominique LAPLACE, Emmanuel MIGNOT and André PAQUIER
Chapter 11. Quality of Surface Waters 239 Patrick GOBLET and Stéphanie EVEN
Chapter 12. Transport of Sediments – Bedload and Suspension 249 Kamal EL KADI ABDERREZZAK and André PAQUIER
Chapter 13. Fluvial Morphodynamics 275 Philippe LEFORT
Chapter 14. Typology of rivers and streams 297 Philippe LEFORT and Jean-Michel TANGUY
PART 4. ESTUARY, SEA AND COASTLINE 321
Chapter 15. Estuaries 323 Claude MIGNIOT and Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 16. The Tide 373 Bernard SIMON
Chapter 17. Waves 389 Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 18. Storm and storm surge forecasts 419 Pierre DANIEL and Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 19. Coastal Zone 427 François SABATIER and Jean-Michel TANGUY
PART 5. NECESSARY DATA FOR THE MODELING TOOLS 463
Chapter 20. Introduction to Measuring Systems 465 Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 21. Measurement of the Meteorological Parameters Related to the Water Cycle 469 Pierre TABARY, Jean-Michel TANGUY and Pascale DUPUY
Chapter 22. Topographic and Bathymetric Data 493 Annick TEKATLIAN
Chapter 23. Soils, Water and Water in Soils 505 Arthur MARCHANDISE
Chapter 24. Levels and Flowrates in Watercourses, Lakes and Reservoirs 517 Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 25. Water Quality Measurements 533 Patrick GOBLET and Stéphanie EVEN
Chapter 26. Measuring Ice Cover Thickness 539 Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 27. Measurements in Fluvial Sedimentology 549 Philippe LEFORT and David GOUTX
Chapter 28. Measurements in Urban Hydrology 559 Philippe BATTAGLIA
Chapter 29. Measuring Currents, Swells and the Sea Level 579 Jean-Michel TANGUY
Chapter 30. Sedimentological Measurements in a Coastal Environment 583 Franck LEVOY and Bernadette TESSIER
Chapter 31. New Technologies from Space 597
List of Authors 605
Index 611
General Index of Authors 613
Summary of Other Volumes in the Series 615
