Physical Processes and Measurement Devices

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