Meet the editors

Dr. Ghosh is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata. He holds a first class first position in undergraduate and postgraduate levels from Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, India, and has a number of awards and honors in his name. He completed his doctoral research in the fields of hydrogeomorphology and is a life member of a number of geographical

organizations of great repute. His fields of expertise are fluvial geomorphology and hydrometeorology.

Professor Mukhopadhyay is a senior professor and Head of the Department of Geography, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. She has been serving this institution of international repute for almost three decades. At her initial journey to this field she was a UGC research fellow (1980–1984), a CSIR senior research fellow (1987–1990), and a CSIR pool scientist (1990–1993). Fifteen doctoral degrees

and three research projects have been awarded and completed under her guidance. Professor Mukhopadhyay is attached to several reputed academic and institutional bodies and is a well-known name in India and abroad for her extensive research experience in the fields of fluvial geomorphology, anthropogeomorphology, and environmental geography.

Contents

Frontiers, Issues and Challenges

Ice-Covered Flow Conditions

Special Reference to Southwest Nigeria

River Plume in Sediment-Laden Rivers

*by Levent Yilmaz*

Balance Model

*by Krishna Gopal Ghosh and Sutapa Mukhopadhyay*

*by Mohammad Reza Namaee, Jueyi Sui and Peng Wu*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1** Introductory Chapter: Current Practice in Fluvial Geomorphology: Research

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 63**

**Chapter 6 83**

**Chapter 7 93**

Effect of the Evapotranspiration of Thornthwaite and of Penman- Monteith in the Estimation of Monthly Streamflows Based on a Monthly Water

*by Maria Manuela Portela, João Santos and Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart*

Remote Sensing and River Basin Management: An Expository Review with

Overview of Hydrological Dynamics and Geomorphological Aspects of the Amazon Region Rivers to Characterize Fluvial Sensitivity to Oil Spills

*Carlos Henrique Beisl, Luiz Landau and Alexandre Gonçalves Evsukoff*

Experimental Study of Local Scour around Side-by-Side Bridge Piers under

Modeling River Morphodynamic Process Using a Depth-Averaged Computational Model and an Application to a Mountain River *by Yafei Jia, Yaoxin Zhang, Keh-Chia Yeh and Chung-Ta Liao*

*by Adewole Adedayo Oreoluwa and Eludoyin Adebayo Oluwole*

*by Patricia Mamede da Silva, Fernando Pellon de Miranda,* 
