TWO deals with surface water hydrology (TOPICS COVERED: surface water availability, evaporation and evapotranspiration, SCS-CN method, rainfall-runoff modeling under moving storms, watershed runoff prediction under incremental radar rainfall characteristics, SCS-SMA model incorporating Kalman filter, climate change impacts on water resources, causes, evidence and impacts of climate change on groundwater resources, and effects of land use and land cover on hydrology and aquatic systems);PART THREE covers stochastic hydrology (TOPICS COVERED: probabilistic structure of rainfall, statistical downscaling of daily regional precipitation process under climate change scenarios using vector machines, statistical downscaling of daily precipitation process for climate-related impact studies, flood estimation in ungaged basins, Bonta-Rao method for estimating peak flows and frequencies, short walk into two shape parameter flood frequency distributions, extending short records of hydrologic data, drought characterization, bivariate drought characterization, development of drought SAF curves, and unbiased finite sample Hurst exponent estimates using rescaled range analysis);PART FOUR addresses various aspects of Hydraulics (TOPICS COVERED: discharge and sediment rating curves, streamflow measurements and discharge assessment during high flood events, mathematical modeling for flow routing in open channels, soil erosion and sediment yield modeling watershed erosion, hydrodynamic transport in flow.

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