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• Introduction : More city than water / Lacy M. Johnson
• History. Gusher / Sonia Hamer
• History displaced : flooding the first black municipality in Texas / Aimee VonBokel with Tanya Debose, and Alexandria Parson
• Anthropocene City : Houston as hyperobject / Roy Scranton
• If you didn't know your house was sinking / Martha Serpas
• Meander belt : a native Houstonian reflects on water / Elaine Shen
• Ombrophobia (fear of rain) / Cheryl Beckett
• The task in front of us : a conversation with Raj Mankad / Lacy M. Johnson
• Memory. Harvey alerts / Sonia Del Hierro
• The only thing you have/trace of a trace / Lyric Evans-Hunter
• Things that drown, and why / Bruno Ríos
• Higher ground / Bryan Washington
• The gallery of cracked pavement : a walking tour / Dana Kroos
• The city that saved itself / Allyn West
• We all breathe the same air : a conversation with P. Grace Tee Lewis / Lacy M. Johnson
• Community. Climate dignity : reading Baldwin After Harvey and in the Near Northside / Daniel Peña
• Look east / Susan Rogers
• Community power / Ben Hirsch
• A whole city on stilts : hydraulic citizenship in Houston / Dominic Boyer
• Suburban design with nature / Geneva Vest
• Lean to that flood song / Laura August
• From ice to inundation / Cymene Howe
• Lean in to the living world : a conversation with Alex Ortiz / Lacy M. Johnson.

• Foreword / by Carl B. Albert
• Introduction. A wicked problem in a troubled political time
• Distinctive Western features
• Climate creep and drought policy cycles
• Wildfire terror and policy sparks
• Reluctant resilience: Coastal threats and delayed solutions
• The paths of water and energy governance
• Conclusion. A more resilient West?

• Introduction
• Nature Revealed
• Relics of the Past
• Recent Human Footprints
• Connecting People, Places and Resources
• Sea Level Rising.

On the management of both local and transboundary rivers in Ethiopia.

"This volume systematically covers fundamental aspects and current challenges of climatology in cold regions, including cloud, wind, precipitation, radiation, and snow. It focuses on the role of land-atmosphere interactions in cold regions, the nature of land surface processes, soil frozen-thawing processes, snow melting processes, and surface diabatic heating. By introducing new ways of climate modelling in cold regions, this reference will serve to improve seasonal climate prediction via the of use of cryospheric signals. The concepts and date presented here will be of interest to those working and studying in the fields of meteorology, hydrology, and ecology alike."-- Provided by publisher

For generations, enterprising people in the southern Appalachians have turned the region's extensive network of caves into a strange, fascinating genre of tourist attraction. Visitors pay admission to take a tour deep underground, learning a little about history and geology while puzzling over lit-up rock formations said to resemble anything from Niagara Falls to the Capitol dome. Then off go the lights, enveloping the travelers in total darkness--until the guide flips them back on and welcomes folks back into the safety of the inevitable gift shop. Show caves, as Douglas Reichert Powell explains in Endless Caverns, are at once predictable and astonishing, ancient and modern, eerie and sentimental. Their story sparks memories of a fleeting cool moment deep underground during a hot summer vacation, capturing in microcosm the history and culture of a region where a deeply rooted sense of place collides with constant change. Reichert Powell takes readers along on his journey through the past and present of Appalachia's show caves, highlighting the characters who have owned and operated them, the ways the attractions have developed and changed over the years, and the odd intrigue that still leads people to buy their ticket and head underground. Tourist tastes may shift as interstates whisk travelers past the backroads and on to trendier destinations, but the show cave--like Appalachia itself--endures.

• Intro
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Lake Ice Science
• 1.3 Ice Season
• 1.4 This Book
• References
• 2 Freezing of Lakes
• 2.1 Lake Types and Characteristics
• 2.1.1 Lake Basins
• 2.1.2 Water Budget of Lakes
• 2.1.3 Physical Properties of Lake Water
• 2.2 Ice-Covered Lakes
• 2.2.1 Freezing of Lakes
• 2.2.2 Vertical Mixing and Seasons
• 2.2.3 Seasonal Lake Ice Zone
• 2.2.4 Lakes with Perennial Ice
• 2.3 Climate and Water Budget
• 2.3.1 General Regional Climate
• 2.3.2 Radiation Balance

• 2.3.3 Air Pressure, Temperature, Humidity and Wind
• 2.4 Remote Sensing of Lake Ice
• 2.4.1 Techniques
• 2.4.2 Optical Remote Sensing
• 2.4.3 Thermal Remote Sensing
• 2.4.4 Microwave Remote Sensing
• References
• 3 Structure and Properties of Lake Ice
• 3.1 Ice Ih: The Solid Phase of Water on Earth
• 3.1.1 Ice Crystal Structure
• 3.1.2 Ice Nucleation
• 3.1.3 Ice Formation in Lakes
• 3.1.4 Physical Properties of Lake Ice
• 3.1.5 Snow Cover on Ice
• 3.2 Lake Ice Types and Stratigraphy
• 3.2.1 Ice Structure Analysis
• 3.2.2 Lake Ice Stratigraphy
• 3.2.3 Ice Mass Balance

• 3.3 Impurities in Lake Ice Cover
• 3.4 Light Transfer Through Ice Cover
• 3.4.1 Radiance and Irradiance
• 3.4.2 Optical Properties of Lake Ice
• 3.4.3 Light Transmittance
• References
• 4 Thermodynamics of Seasonal Lake Ice
• 4.1 Heat Budget of Freezing Lakes
• 4.1.1 Heat Budget and Radiation Balance
• 4.1.2 Solar Radiation
• 4.1.3 Terrestrial Radiation
• 4.2 Turbulent Heat Exchange with the Atmosphere and Water Body
• 4.2.1 Boundary Layer Above Lake Ice
• 4.2.2 Boundary-Layer Below Lake Ice
• 4.3 Ice Growth and Melting
• 4.3.1 Thermodynamic Principles
• 4.3.2 Congelation Ice

• 4.3.3 Snow on Ice
• 4.3.4 Frazil Ice
• 4.3.5 Ice Melting
• 4.4 Thermodynamic Models of Lake Ice
• 4.4.1 Basics
• 4.4.2 Analytic Models
• 4.4.3 Numerical Models
• 4.4.4 Quasi-Steady Models
• 4.4.5 Time-Dependent Models
• 4.4.6 Two-Phase Models
• References
• 5 Mechanics of Lake Ice
• 5.1 Rheology
• 5.1.1 Stress
• 5.1.2 Strain and Rotation
• 5.1.3 Rheological Models
• 5.2 Ice Cover as a Plate on Water Foundation
• 5.2.1 Elastic Lake Ice Cover
• 5.2.2 Viscous Behaviour of Lake Ice
• 5.2.3 Thermal Cracking and Expansion
• 5.2.4 Displacements in Ice Cover

• 5.3 Bearing Capacity of Ice
• 5.4 Ice Forces
• 5.4.1 Ice Load Problems
• 5.4.2 Estimation of Ice Loads
• 5.5 Drift Ice in Lakes
• 5.5.1 Drift Ice Material
• 5.5.2 Equations of Drift Ice Mechanics
• 5.5.3 Models of Drift Ice Dynamics
• References
• 6 Proglacial Lakes
• 6.1 Ice Sheets and Glaciers
• 6.2 Supraglacial Lakes
• 6.2.1 Structure of Supraglacial Lakes
• 6.2.2 Thermodynamics of Supraglacial Lakes
• 6.2.3 Case Study
• 6.3 Epiglacial Lakes
• 6.3.1 Occurrence of Epiglacial Lakes
• 6.3.2 Thermodynamics of Epiglacial Lakes
• 6.4 Subglacial Lakes

This book updates the first edition for the status of knowledge in the physics of lake ice and the interactions between the ice cover and the liquid water underneath. Since the first edition was written in 2013, there has been a lot of progress in the field, in particular concerning environmental questions and the impact of climate change. Life conditions in ice-covered lakes and practical matters are now brought more into the picture so that the revision also properly serves as a handbook for applications. The author has worked widely with boreal lakes, polar lakes and Central Asian lakes that provides a wide geographical spectrum. Chapter 1 gives a brief overview and presents the research fields. The second chapter contains the classification of ice-covered lakes and observation techniques, especially remote sensing. In Chapter 3, the structure and properties of lake ice are presented including optics and geochemistry. Ice growth and melting are treated in Chapter 4, while the following chapter focuses on ice mechanics with applications to traffic on ice and ice loads. Chapter 6 goes into the exotic environment of pro-glacial lakes. Chapter 7 contains the stratification and circulation of the water body beneath lake ice, Chapter 8 presents the winter ecology of freezing lakes and discusses the lake ice interface toward the society, and Chapter 9 summarizes the climate change impact on lake ice seasons. The book ends into a brief closing chapter and list of references. Research problems for student learning are listed throughout the book. Annexes are included to provide numerical data of constants and standard formulae to help practical calculations and student tasks. Lake ice closely interacts with human living conditions, but people have learnt to live with that and to utilize the ice. In the present time this is true for on-ice traffic and recreation activities. Ice fishing has become a widely enjoyed hobby, and winter sports such as skiing, skating, and ice sailing are popular activities on frozen lakes. The lake ice response to eventual climate warming would appear as a shortening of the ice season due to the increasing air temperature and also as changing of the quality of the ice seasons via changes in ice thickness and structure. The book gives the whole story of lake ice into a single volume. The second, revised edition updates the content based on recent progress in winter limnology and ice physics research and applications. The author has contributed to lake ice research since the 1980s. In particular, his topics have been lake ice structure and thermodynamics, light transfer in ice and snow, ice mechanics in large lakes, and lake ice climatology. Mathematical modeling of ice growth, drift, and decay are covered in this research

• INTRODUCTION
• NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS
• CATCHMENTS, SURFACE FLOWS
• UNDERGROUND MORPHOLOGY AND FAUNA
• WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS
• INFLUENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS
• CHEMISTRY AND WATER QUALITY

The area of Eastern Herzegovina is one of the most karstified regions in the world. Deep karst, sinking rivers, underground flows, temporary flooded karst poljes and lack of arable land is main natural property of the region. Due to two kinds of misfortune, flood and drought, people have emigrated from this region searching for a better life. The book contains new scientific data and engineering experience collected during more than 100 years of investigations and construction. To provide optimum water management and economic development, thousands of new data are collected and presented in the book. Necessity for balance between regional development and preservation of nature was one of the important request

• Introduction to the Sierra Nevada
• Introduction to high-elevation lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada
• Snow hydrology
• Watershed hydrology
• Watershed biogeochemistry
• Limnology
• Variability, trends and future scenarios.

"The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes, which are critical water sources for agriculture and urban development throughout California. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California's ecology and natural resources, we need a clear account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account of these processes, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lake will respond"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PORTRAITS; PART ONE WATER; Introduction; Narwhals and Navigators on the Arctic Sea; Ephemeral Tsunamis, Emotional Waves, and Enduring Islands; Seawater to the Mountain Top: The Hydrological Cycle in Chivay, Peru; Bursting Bodies of Water; When It Rains and the River Grows; The Elusive Pleasure of Rain in the Sahel; Dams: Management Versus Luck; Water as Power and Destroyer; New Opportunities Turning into Disaster; Coastal Gardens and Their Magic; The Sprawled Way of Detergents.

• Droughts: Complex Social PhenomenaWater Quantity Vs Water Quality; Fixed and Fluid Waters: Mirroring the Arctic and the Pacific; PART TWO TECHNOLOGY; Introduction; Sea Level and Coastal Protection; Urbanizing Water in a Context of Scarcity; A Job Machine Powered by Water; Life in the Shadow of a Water Tower; Waste and Water: Connected and Mixed; Inverted Watering Strategies in Senegal; Cobs as Technological Solutions; The Imagined Water Pump; Unpredictable Side Effects of New Technologies; Scalable and Fluid Sprinklers; Dry Technologies and Community Bureaucracies; A Life Jacket Story.

• Unpacking the Dog SledgeWater Technologies: Mirroring Great Expectations in Greenland and Ghana; PART THREE LANDSCAPE; Introduction; Hualca Hualca: Mountain Lord and Life Source; Knowing Landscapes of Water in Kiribati; Borders at Sea; Making Urban Landscapes: People, Water, Materials; Dreams, Water and the Remodelling of Place; Strategic Thinking: Changeable Usages of the Nigerian Landscape; Landscapes of Droughts and Floods on the Desert Margins; A Landscape of Ice; Walking Along Water; Old Water, Gardens and Prophetic Powers in the Sahel.

• Can You See Climate Change in a Changing Environment?Mental Topographies; Nomadic Landscapes and Ephemeral Resources; Icons of Climate Change: Mirroring the Sahel and the Andes; PART FOUR TIME; Introduction; Glacial Time; Seasons, Timings, and the Rhythms of Life; Flexible Trajectories: Nomadic Pastoral Mobility Patterns; Still Life on the Shore; Appraising Change: A Question of Baseline; Litres Per Second: Measuring the Water Flow; New Scenarios and Unstable Temporalities; Facing Reality: Managing/Imagining the Time Left on an Atoll; Anticipating Futures and the Rhythms of Water.

• Slow Versus Fast Changes in Sahelian Land Use SystemsThree Calendars and the Test of Time in Northern Sahel; 'Packages' with Disparate Time Horizons; Urban Talks about Climate and Weather; Times of Climate Change in Religion and Ethics: Mirroring the Andes and the Pacific; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FURTHER READING.

Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future. This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork of expert authors, it sheds new light on the human experience of and social response to climate change by taking us from the Arctic to the Pacific, from the Southeast Indian C.

Replacing the Traditional Physical Model Approach Computational models offer promise in improving the modeling of shallow water flows. As new techniques are considered, the process continues to change and evolve. Modeling Shallow Water Flows Using the Discontinuous Galerkin Method examines a technique that focuses on hyperbolic conservation laws and includes one-dimensional and two-dimensional shallow water flows and pollutant transports. Combines the Advantages of Finite Volume and Finite Element Methods This book explores the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, also known as the discontinuous finite element method, in depth. It introduces the DG method and its application to shallow water flows, as well as background information for implementing and applying this method for natural rivers. It considers dam-break problems, shock wave problems, and flows in different regimes (subcritical, supercritical, and transcritical). Readily Adaptable to the Real World While the DG method has been widely used in the fields of science and engineering, its use for hydraulics has so far been limited to simple cases. The book compares numerical results with laboratory experiments and field data, and includes a set of tests that can be used for a wide range of applications. Provides step-by-step implementation details Presents the different forms in which the shallow water flow equations can be written Places emphasis on the details and modifications required to apply the scheme to real-world flow problems This text enables readers to readily understand and develop an efficient computer simulation model that can be used to model flow, contaminant transport, and other aspects in rivers and coastal environments. It is an ideal resource for practicing environmental engineers and researchers in the area of computational hydraulics and fluid dynamics, and graduate students in computational hydraulics

• Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on Language; Introduction; 1 The Long River; 2 The Flood Pulse; 3 The Dragon King; 4 A Sense of Disaster; 5 Disaster Experts; 6 The Floating Population; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Unearths the forgotten history of a catastrophic flood, examining its profound impact upon the environment and society of modern China.