Hydrologic and Sediment Monitoring of Watersheds in India : A Field Manual
Contents: I. Why? What? Who? When? Where?: 1. What is hydrology? 2. What is the hydrologic cycle? 3. What is precipitation? 4. What are the agro-ecological regions in India? 5. What is the monsoon? 6. What is a watershed? 7. What is erosion? 8. What is watershed management? 9. Why watershed management? II. What do we have to measure?: 10. What is a sediment monitoring station? 11. How to ensure good measurements? 12. Why do we have to use protocols? III. How to construct and equip a SMS?: 13. How to construct a SMS stilling well? 14. How to construct a cat walk? 15. How to construct a station with a weir? 16. Example: how to construct a SMS stilling well? 17. How do we calculate a rating curve? 18. How to equip the standard SMS laboratory? IV. How do we have to measure?: 19. How do we measure precipitation? 20. How do we measure evaporation? 21. How do we measure the water level? 22. How do we measure discharge? 23. How do we measure sediment in the field? 24. How do we measure sediment in the laboratory? 25. Are there other measurements? V. How to evaluate the data? : 26. Apples and oranges? 27. How to evaluate precipitation? 28. How to evaluate evaporation? 29. How to evaluate water level? 30. How to evaluate discharge? 31. How to evaluate sediment measurements? 32. More exercises. 33. Solutions. VI. What do we do with the data? : 34. Are the data correct? 35. What are statistics? 36. How are results presented? 37. Remote sensing and GIS in hydrology. 38. What happens to the data? 39. Outlook. 40. How much does it cost? Glossary. References.
"Hydrologic and Sediment Monitoring of Watersheds in India is a practical, field, oriented manual for technicians and junior engineers. It covers selection and construction of sediment monitoring stations, instrumentation, field measurements, data collection and data analysis. The manual is based on the experiences of the Indo-German Bilateral Project "Watershed Management", which operates sediment monitoring stations in 13 project areas in India."
