Scale Dependence and Scale Invariance in Hydrology

Leading hydrologists present their views on the role of scale effects in hydrologic phenomena occurring in a range of field settings.

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Scale analyses for land-surface hydrology Eric F. Wood; 2. Hillslopes, channels, and landscape scale William E. Dietrich and David R. Montgomery; 3. Scaling in river networks Andrea Rinaldo and Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe; 4. Spatial variability and scale invariance in hydrologic regionalization Vijay K. Gupta and Edward C. Waymire; 5. An emerging technology for scaling field soil-water behavior Donald R. Nielson, Jan W. Hopmans and Klaus Reichardt; 6. Scaling invariance and the Richards equation Garrison Sposito; 7. Scaling of the Richards equation and its application to watershed modeling R. Haverkamp, J.-Y. Parlange, R. Cuenca, P. J. Ross and T. S. Steenhuis; 8. Scale issues of heterogeneity in vadose-zone hydrology T.-C. J. Yeh; 9. Stochastic modeling of scale-dependent macrodispersion in the vadose zone David Russo; 10. Dilution of nonreactive solutes in heterogeneous porous media Vivek Kapoor and Peter Kitanidis; 11. Analysis of scale effects in large-scale solute-transport models Roger Beckie; 12. Scale effects in fluid flow through fractured geologic media Paul A. Hsieh; 13. Correlation, flow, and transport in multiscale permeability fields Shlomo P. Neuman and Vittorio Di Federico; 14. Conditional simulation of geologic media with evolving scales of heterogeneity Yoram Rubin and Alberto Bellin; Index.