The Use of the Climatic Water Budget in Water Resources Management and Control

摘要

Comparison of the monthly or daily climatic supply of water (precipitation) with the climatic demands for water (evapotranspiration) in a water budget accounting framework results in quantitative information on such factors as recharge of water to the water table, streamflow, irrigation need, and storage of moisture in the soil. The information is needed by planners, engineers, agriculturalists, hydrologists and others who are concerned with water resources and their modification by human or natural actions. The results of the study have been presented in a series of primers which describe how the climatic water budget can be adapted to solve particular water problems. Titles of the six primers are: WATBUG: A FORTRAN IV Algorithm for Calculating the Climatic Water Budget; The Use of the Climatic Water Budget in Irrigation Scheduling: Iowa; The Use of the Water Budget in Evaluating Leaching Through Solid Waste Landfills; The Influence of Land-Use Change on Water Resources; Use of the Climatic Water Budget to Estimate Streamflow; The Use of the Climatic Water Budget to Evaluate the Validity of a Precipitation Record.