Rivers provide the primary link between land and sea. Utilizing the world's largest database, this book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting fluvial discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. It also discusses the ways in which climatic variation, episodic events and anthropogenic activities - past, present and future - affect the quantity and quality of river discharge. The book contains more than 165 figures - many in full color - including global and regional maps. An extensive appendix presents the 1534-river database as a series of 44 tables that provide quantitative data regarding the discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. The complete database is also presented within a GIS-based package available online at www.cambridge.org/milliman. Now available in paperback, reprinted with corrections, this is an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in hydrology, oceanography, geology, geomorphology and environmental policy.
| ISBN: | 9781107612181 |
| Publication date: | 28th March 2013 |
| Author: | John D. (College of William and Mary, Virginia) Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 394 pages |
| Genres: |
Hydrology and the hydrosphere Physical geography and topography Geomorphology and geological surface processes |