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Dingman, Stanley Lawrence was born on January 31, 1939 in Jersey City. Son of Stanley Thomas and Beatrice Mary (Zullo) Dingman.
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Fluvial Hydraulics provides a sound qualitative and quantitative understanding of water and sediment flows in natural rivers. This understanding is essential for modeling and predicting hydrologic and geomorphologic processes, erosion, sediment transport, water supply and quality, habitat management, and flood hazards. This book's coverage bridges the gap between the highly quantitative mechanics-based civil-engineering approach to stream hydraulics and the more qualitative treatments of fluvial geomorphology typical of earth-sciences and natural-resources curricula. Measurements of natural river flows illustrate many central concepts. The book is specifically designed for upper-level students and practitioners who are interested in a fundamental understanding of river behavior. An introduction to the history of fluvial hydraulics and an overview of the morphology and hydrology of rivers provides the context for the rest of the text. A thorough understanding of water properties, including turbulence, is developed via a series of simple thought experiments. The bases of the equations that are used to describe and predict river flows are systematically presented, including dimensional analysis. Subsequent chapters build logically on these foundations, covering velocity distributions, new insights to the central topic of flow resistance, the magnitudes of forces in natural river flows, the principles of conservation of energy and momentum, the prediction of water-surface profiles, the principles of flow measurement, mechanics, and geomorphic aspects of sediment transport. The book will be especially valuable in providing a scientific basis for the growing field of river restoration. An appendix reviews dimenstions, units, and numerical precision. Over 250 references are cited, providing an entree to the extensive multi-disciplinary literature on rivers. The book's website provides suggestions for student exercises and makes available extensive data bases of measured streamflows for student exploration.
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(For twenty years, Lawrence Dingman's well-written, compre...)
For twenty years, Lawrence Dingman's well-written, comprehensive Physical Hydrology has set standards for balancing theoretical depth and breadth of applications. Rich in substance and written to meet the needs of future researchers and experts in the field, Dingman treats hydrology as a distinct geoscience that is continually expanding to deal with large-scale changes in land use and climate. The third edition provides a solid conceptual basis of the subject and introduces the quantitative relations involved in answering scientific and management questions about water resources. The text is organized around three principal themes: the basic concepts underlying the science of hydrology; the exchange of water and energy between the atmosphere and the earth's surface; and the land phase of the hydrologic cycle. Dingman supplies the basic physical principles necessary for developing a sound, instructive sense of the way in which water moves on and through the land; in addition, he describes the assumptions behind each analytical approach and identifies the limitations of each. Outstanding features include: An examination of documented trends in global change of climatic and hydrologic quantities; statistical and measurement methods for the development and management of hydrologic simulation modeling; additional exercises that emphasize analyses using data sets obtained via the Internet; and Excel spreadsheets on the accompanying CD.
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Dingman's goal throughout Physical Hydrology is to provide an understanding of the conceptual basis of the subject and introduce the quantitative relations involved in answering scientific and water-resources-management questions. The author supplies the basic physical principles necessary for developing a sound intuitive and quantitative sense of the way in which water moves through the land. He outlines the assumptions behind each conceptual approach but also identifies some of the limitations of each. Rich in substance and written to fulfill the needs of future researchers and experts in the field, Dingman treats hydrology as a distinct geoscience that is continually expanding to deal with large-scale changes in land use and climate. The text is organized around four principal themes: the basic concepts underlying the science of hydrology; the global climate, the global hydrologic cycle, and the relation of hydrology to soils and vegetation; the land phase of the hydrologic cycle; and water-resource-management principles and the ways in which hydrologic analysis is applied in that context. Coverage includes approaches for determining regional evapotranspiration rates, the movement of ground water in rock fractures, and the relation of hydrologic regimes to past and future climates. It offers in-depth discussions of hydrologic modeling--model use, modeling terminology, and the process of model development; water-resource-management goals and processes; water supply and demand; water-quality issues; floods and flood-frequency analysis; and drought and low-flow analysis. Outstanding features that facilitate learning include: A tabulation of documented trends in global change of climatic and hydrologic quantities; information on methods for handling missing data; discussions of the BROOK90 model and how it can be used with the text; Internet links to hydrologic information; exercises designed for student exploration; and Excel spreadsheets on the accompanying CD.
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Dingman, Stanley Lawrence was born on January 31, 1939 in Jersey City. Son of Stanley Thomas and Beatrice Mary (Zullo) Dingman.
AB, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1960. Master of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970.
Research hydrologist, United States. Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, N.H., 1963-1969;
visiting assistant professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1969-1971;
director research, Dubois & King, Inc., Randolph, Vermont, 1972-1973;
senior resource planner, New England River Basins Commission, Boston, 1973-1975;
assistant to associate professor hydrology, U. N.H., Durham, 1975-1983;
professor hydrology and water resources, U. N.H., Durham, since 1983;
chairman earth science Department, University N.H., Durham, since 1990. Vice president Hydrosci.
Associations, Inc., Durham, 1979-1992.
(Dingman's goal throughout Physical Hydrology is to provid...)
(For twenty years, Lawrence Dingman's well-written, compre...)
(Fluvial Hydraulics provides a sound qualitative and quant...)
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Author: Fluvial Hydrology, 1984, Physical Hydrology, 1993. Contributor articles to professional journals. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Water Resources Association, American Geophysical Union, American Institute Hydrology, Massachusetts Audubon Society (Audubon A award 1975).
Married Barbara Buckmaster, August 29, 1961 (divorced 1972). Children: Sarah Dingman Savasky, Christopher Lawrence. Married Jane Ruth Van Zandt, February 2, 1974, stepchildren: Andrew V.Z. Brower, Tamsin P. Brower.