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Where the river flows = scientific reflections on earth's waterways /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Where the river flows / Sean W. Fleming
Reminder of title:	scientific reflections on earth's waterways /
Author:	Fleming, Sean W.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 204 pages) :illustrations :
Subject:	Rivers -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0005756.html
ISBN:	1400885027

Where the river flows = scientific reflections on earth's waterways /
Fleming, Sean W.,

Where the river flows scientific reflections on earth's waterways /[electronic resource] :Sean W. Fleming - 1 online resource (x, 204 pages) :illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

Why rivers are where they are -- How do rivers remember? -- Clouds talking to fish: the information content of rain -- Searching for buried treasure -- The digital rainbow -- Landslides, fractals, and artificial life -- The sky's not the limit -- The hydrologist's final exam: watershed modeling -- Epilogue

Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us. Sean Fleming draws on examples ranging from common backyard creeks to powerful and evocative rivers like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Thames, and Congo. Each chapter looks at a particular aspect of rivers through the lens of applied physics, using abundant graphics and intuitive analogies to explore the surprising connections between watershed hydrology and the world around us

In English

ISBN: 1400885027Subjects--Topical Terms:

1176263
Rivers
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: GB1201.7

Dewey Class. No.: 551.5

National Agricultural Library Call No.: GB1201.7 / .F56 2017

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520 $a Fleming explains how river flows fluctuate like stock markets, what "digital rainbows" can tell us about climate change and its effects on water supply, how building virtual watersheds in silicon may help avoid the predicted water wars of the twenty- first century, and much more. Along the way, you will learn what some of the most exciting ideas in science--such as communications theory, fractals, and even artificial life--reveal about the life of rivers. Where the River Flows offers a new understanding of the profound interrelationships that rivers have with landscapes, ecosystems, and societies, and shows how startling new insights are possible when scientists are willing to think outside the disciplinary box
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