Contents

**Preface XI**


#### Chapter 7 **Variability and Change in Water Cycle at the Catchment Level 115**

Roxana Bojariu, Sorin Ionuţ Dascălu, Mădălina Gothard, Alexandru Dumitrescu, Roxana Cică, Sorin Burcea, Liliana Velea, Marius-Victor Bîrsan, Vasile Craciunescu, Anisoara Irimescu, Marius Matreata, Viorel Chendeș, Boris Boincean, Valeriu Cazac, Vera Potopová and Andrei Nita

Preface

ning.

Rainfall, hail, snow, sleet, and other forms of moisture that comprise precipitation are topics that engineers and planners deal with in their typical projects and researches. How precipi‐ tation occurs, and the magnitude of its characteristics and attributes can dictate designs of civil engineering works and enable opportunities for growth and sustainable communities. The mathematics involved in describing the attributes of precipitation are embodied in the

In this book, many of the topics of current interest are examined that deal with these fasci‐ nating aspects of water as they occur in our planet's hydrologic cycle. These topics of inter‐ est include Doppler Radar estimation techniques and related distributions of uncertainty; hydrologic modeling; components of precipitation, their relationship to other variables found in the thermodynamic relationships, and also their influence on hydrometeorology topics related to floods and droughts; and other areas of interest in engineering and plan‐

This book provides a cross section of the current progress in the effort to better understand and describe several influences that rainfall has to engineers, scientists, and environmental

**Theodore V Hromadka II**

**Prasada Rao**

United States Military Academy, USA

California State University, USA

technical fields of Hydrology and Hydrometeorology.

planners, among other disciplines.

Chapter 8 **Landslide Susceptibility of Chittagong City, Bangladesh, and Development of Landslides Early Warning System 131** Reshad Md. Ekram Ali, Lloyd Warren Tunbridge, Rajinder Kumar Bhasin, Salma Akter, Mohammad Zohir Uddin and Md. Mahmood Hossain Khan

#### Chapter 9 **Flash Flood Early Warning Research in China 147** Haichen Li, Tao Qin and Xiaohui Lei

Chapter 10 **Effect of the Rainfall Infiltration Processes on the Landslide Hazard Assessment of Unsaturated Soils in Tropical Mountainous Regions 163** Cesar Augusto Hidalgo, Johnny Alexander Vega and Melissa Parra Obando
