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storage may have a significant effect on river flows,
as is demonstrated in the Mackenzie river Case
Study (pp. 72-75).
FURTHER READING
Ferguson, R.I. (1999) Snowmelt runoff models.
Progress in Physical Geography
23
:205-228.
An overview of snow melt estimation techniques.
Freeze, R.A. and Cherry J.A. (1979)
Groundwater
.
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
A classic text book on groundwater (including soil
water).
Kendall, C. and McDonnell J.J. (eds) (1998)
Isotope
tracers in catchment hydrology
. Elsevier Science,
Amsterdam.
Detailed topic on groundwater and streamwater
ageing techniques.
Klute, A. (ed.) (1986)
Methods of soil analysis. Part
1: Physical and mineralogical methods
. American
Society of Agronomy-Soil Science Society of
America, Madison, Wisc.
A mine of information on soil methods.
Price, M. (1996)
Introducing groundwater
(2nd edn).
Chapman and Hall, London.
An introductory text on groundwater.
ESSAY QUESTIONS
1
Compare and contrast different
methods for measuring soil water
content at the hillslope scale.
2Define the term
saturated hydraulic
conductivity
and explain its importance
in understanding groundwater flow.
3
Explain the terms
confined
and
unconfined
with respect to aquifers
and describe how artesian wells
come about.
4
Describe the field experiment required
to assess the amount of snow in a
seasonal snowpack and the timing
of the snow melt.
