By Michel Barnier (auth.), Dr. Claude Bardinet, Dr. Jean-Jacques Royer (eds.)
This quantity includes chosen updated expert papers ready via experts from numerous disciplines relating to geosciences and water assets. Thirty papers speak about assorted elements of environmental info modeling. It presents a discussion board bringing jointly contributions, either theoretical and utilized, with exact realization to Water in Ecosystems, international Atmospheric Evolution, area and Earth distant Sensing, local Environmental alterations, getting access to Geoenvironmental facts and Ecotoxicological matters. "Geosciences and Water assets: Environmental info Modeling" is now the fourth quantity within the sequence "Data and information in a altering World". introduced by way of CODATA after the 14th foreign convention of the Committee on information for Sciences and know-how, in Chambery, the aim of this new sequence is to gather from generally various fields a wealth of knowledge concerning the clever exploitation of information in technology and expertise and to make that details on hand to a multidisciplinary neighborhood. the current sequence incorporates a wide diversity of contributions, together with computer-related dealing with and visualization of knowledge, to the most important medical, tech nical, scientific and social fields. The titles of the former released volumes are: the knowledge Revolution: influence on technological know-how and know-how. Modeling advanced info for developing details. commercial info and layout Issues.
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4 COLLECTING HYDROLOGICAL DATA Data on the water balance at the global scale, or for the smallest headwater basin, must be determined from measurements. Traditionally these measurements have been derived from networks of ground-based instruments, but now data are available in an increasing amount from weather radars and from satellite imagery. Unfortunately only a few countries employ these data routinely in assessments of water resources. This situation is not likely to improve as most future satellites are not designed with hydrological applications in mind.
A summary of the movement of water and material about the globe has been made by Berner and Berner ([34]). 4 COLLECTING HYDROLOGICAL DATA Data on the water balance at the global scale, or for the smallest headwater basin, must be determined from measurements. Traditionally these measurements have been derived from networks of ground-based instruments, but now data are available in an increasing amount from weather radars and from satellite imagery. Unfortunately only a few countries employ these data routinely in assessments of water resources.
KEYWORDS Water balance, global water resources, groundwater resources, hydrological cycle, hydrogeological data, quality control, management, WMO activities, decisionmaking, anthropogenic effect. , The world's water: assessing the resource. 6 (1992). Falkenmark M. , Water for a Starving World, Westview Press Inc. (1976). , The Last Oasis, Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series (1993). [4] World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Disasters around the World - A Global and Regional View. 4 (1994).
