The Earth's Hydrological Cycle

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bengtsson, Lennart (Editor), Bonnet, R.-M (Editor), Calisto, M. (Editor), Destouni, G. (Editor), Gurney, R. (Editor), Johannessen, J. (Editor), Kerr, Y. (Editor), Lahoz, W.A (Editor), Rast, M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI, 46
• Subjects: Environment.; Hydrology.; Oceanography.; Physical geography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Climate change.; Climate Change.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.

This book gives a comprehensive presentation of our present understanding of the Earth's Hydrological cycle and the problems, consequences and impacts that go with this topic. Water is a central component in the Earth's system. It is indispensable for life on Earth in its present form and...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Review of understanding of Earth’s hydrological cycle: Observations, theory and modeling
• Challenges in water cycle research
• Physically consistent responses of the global atmospheric cycle in models and observations
• Quantifying and reducing uncertainties in the large scale response of the water cycle
• Conceptual problems in Land Surface Data Assimilation
• Initialisation of land surface variables for Numerical Weather Prediction
• Closing the gaps in our knowledge of the hydrological cycle over land: Conceptual problems
• Toward improved estimation of the dynamic topography and ocean circulation in the high latitude and Arctic Ocean
• Sea Surface Salinity Observations from Space with SMOS satellite: a new tool to better monitor the marine branch of the water cycle
• Role of ocean in the variability of Indian summer monsoon rainfall
• Perspectives in modeling climate-hydrology interactions
• Downscaling satellite precipitation with emphasis on extremes
• Global snow mass measurements and the effect of stratigraphic detail on inversion of microwave brightness temperatures
• Glaciers in the Earth's hydrological cycle: Assessments of glacier mass and runoff changes on global and regional scales
• Observing global surface water flood dynamics
• Arctic climate and water change: Model and observation relevance for assessment and adaptation
• Irrigation effects on hydro-climatic change: Basin-wise water balance-constrained quantification and cross-regional comparison.