Hydrology in Mountain Regions :
Observations, Processes and Dynamics

Edited by Danny Marks, Regine Hock,
Michael Lehning, Masaki Hayashi and Robert Gurney

Proceedings of a Symposium held in Perugia, Italy, 13–17 July 2007

Publ. no. 326, (2009) ISBN 978-1-901502-89-3, 184 + viii pages, price £45.00

Around the globe, mountainous regions, ranging from arctic to tropical, provide a source of water from orographic-induced rain and snow that can sustain ecosystems, agriculture, and populations in areas that might otherwise be quite arid. Climate warming will alter patterns of mountain precipitation, changing seasonal snow cover and hydrology. It is critical that we understand how climate interacts with snow and mountain hydrology, how streamflow and ecosystems will be affected, and how these changes will translate into impacts on water supply downstream:

In July 2007, as part of the IUGG General Assembly in Perugia, Italy, the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology (ICSIH) convened a symposium on Hydrology in Mountain Regions: Observations, Processes and Dynamics that brought scientists from around the world together to address these issues. From the 70 papers presented during the two-day symposium, this Red Book presents 22 papers representing a broad spectrum of our understanding of this critical problem. They are grouped:


 

Contents


     
  1. Precipitation distribution and mountain hydrological processes
     
     
  2. Hydrological, geochemical and ecohydrological modelling in mountain regions
     
     
  3. Soil and groundwater hydrology in mountain regions
     
     
  4. Large-scale analyses over mountainous regions
     
     
  5. Tropical mountain hydrology