World Water Resources and Their FutureAmerican Geophysical Union, 1979 - 415 pages |
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
THE WORLD WATER BALANCE | 13 |
The Earths Water Balance | 51 |
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Africa altitude amount of water annual anthropogenic approximately basis belt bodies of water catchment Caucasus Central Asia computations conservation of water continents countries curves discharge eastern effluents elements erosion evaporation evapotranspiration factors flow forest geographic glaciers Greater Caucasus groundwater runoff hectare hydrological hydrosphere important increase industrial infiltration capacity irrigation km³ L'vovich lakes land area long-range forecasts maps method Moscow natural North northern oceans percent period plants pollution possible precipitation principles problem production rainfall reason reduced reservoirs river basins river regime rivers and bodies role runoff coefficient savannah sediment yield sewage silt charge slope snow snowmelt soil moisture solving South America southern Soviet SSSR steppe streamflow streams surface runoff Table taiga take into account total runoff total wetting transformations transpiration USSR Volga water balance water component water consumption water cycle water management water resources water supply world water zonality zone