Introduction to Hydrology

This textbook provides a broad foundation in the topics of hydrologic science including: mass balance, basic atmospheric thermodynamics, radiation, atmospheric circulation, precipitation, snow, evapotranspiration, unsaturated flow and infiltration, groundwater, and runoff. The book leverages many embedded multimedia resources to convey the topics. An emphasis is placed on real problem solving including numerical applications. As such a "Modular Distributed Watershed Educational Toolbox (MOD-WET)" of MATLAB functions are included with the book. The MOD-WET codes build up to a fully-distributed watershed model that is described in the final chapter. The MOD-WET model provides a basis for integrating the set of concepts covered in the book in the context of both qualitative and quantitative demonstrations and experiments.