Further Study
The student needs to recognize that rainfall – runoff processes in hydrology are an active and deep area of research with continually emerging new understanding. Entire books (e.g. Kirkby, 1978; Anderson and Burt, 1990) have been devoted to the subject, as well as conferences (AGU Chapman conference on Hillslope Hydrology, 2001, Sun River, Oregon) and Journals (Uhlenbrook et al., 2003). Smith et al. (2002) provide a detailed recent account of infiltration theory. The student is referred to good texts that include sections on rainfall – runoff processes for a deeper understanding (Dunne and Leopold, 1978; Linsley et al., 1982; Chow et al., 1988; Bras, 1990; Beven, 2000; Dingman, 2002).
Web resources.
Jeff McDonnell's Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology Lab website
References.
Anderson, M. G. and T. P. Burt, ed. (1990), Process Studies in Hillslope Hydrology, John Wiley, Chichester.
Beven, K. J., (2000), Rainfall Runoff Modelling: The Primer, John Wiley, Chichester.
Bras, R. L., (1990), Hydrology, an Introduction to Hydrologic Science, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 643 p.
Chow, V. T., D. R. Maidment and L. W. Mays, (1988), Applied Hydrology, McGraw Hill, 572 p.
Dingman, S. L., (2002), Physical Hydrology, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 646 p.
Dunne, T. and L. B. Leopold, (1978), Water in Environmental Planning, W H Freeman and Co, San Francisco, 818 p.
Kirkby, M. J., ed. (1978), Hillslope Hydrology.
Linsley, R. K., M. A. Kohler and J. L. H. Paulhus, (1982), Hydrology for Engineers, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 508 p.
Smith, R. E., K. R. J. Smettem, P. Broadbridge and D. A. Woolhiser, (2002), Infiltration Theory for Hydrologic Applications, Water Resources Monograph 15, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 212 p.
Uhlenbrook, S., J. McDonnell and C. Leibundgut., ed. (2003), Runoff Generation and Implications for River Basin Modelling, Hydrological Processes Special Issue 17(2), 197-493.