The study of hydrology has developed unusally fast in the last twenty years, particularly in the last decade. What used to be a purely descriptive discipline taught as an appendix to hydraulics courses, with little research of its own, is now the most exciting field in the water sciences. One of the most significant factors in this emergence is the ful-fledged use of probabilistic and random processes techniques in the study of hydrologic problems. This book embraces this probabilistic point of view which has proven its usefulness throughout all aspects of hydrology and the the key to the nalysis and synthesis of hydrologic processes.
This book is unique in its ambitious coverage of topics including time-series analysis, optimal estimation, optimal interpolation (Kriging), frequency domain analysis of signals, and linear systems theory.
