Hydrology

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### Hydrology[edit]

The interdisciplinary study of the movement, characteristics and distribution of water, surface-water (fresh water and salt water), groundwater, and water-quality [1][2] Subdisciplines include:

* Chemical hydrology: the study of the chemical characteristics of water. Also called hydrochemistry, chemical hydrology deals with the chemical characteristics of the surface water (freshwater and marine) and subterranean water. Water is a chemical solvent and, interacting chemically with materials with which it comes into contact, can dissolve many elements.
* Drainage basin management hydrology.
* Ecohydrology (the study of interactions between organisms and the hydrologic cycle).
* Engineering hydrology
* Global hydrology
* Groundwater hydrology
* Hydrobiology
* Hydrogeology is the study of the presence and movement of water in aquifers.
* Hydroinformatics is the adaptation of information technology to hydrology and water resources applications.
* Hydrometeorology is the study of the transfer of water and energy between land and water body surfaces and the lower atmosphere.
* Isotope hydrology is the study of the isotopic signatures of water.
* Operational hydrology
* Qualitative hydrology
* Surface hydrology is the study of hydrologic processes that operate at or near the Earth's surface.
* Water resources development and management

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## References[edit]

1. ↑ American Institute of Hydrology
2. ↑ British Hydrological Society
3. ↑ International Glossary of hydrology
4. ↑ Water resources of the United States USGA
5. ↑ Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
6. ↑ Virtual campus in hydrology and water resources management A cooperative of Institute of Soil and Water resources Management (Hydrology and Land Improvement Laboratory) EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania (TUCEB); University Timisoara, Faculty of Hydrotechnics, Romania; Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" of Iasi (T.U.I.), Romania; Sophia University "St Kliment Ohridski", Geology and Geography Faculty ; National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology ; Institute of Water Problems, Bulgaria; Kharkiv State Technical University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (KSTUCA), Ukrainia; Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Ecological Problems (USRIEP), Ukrainia; Technical University of Moldova, Faculty of Urban Engineering and Architecture, Chisinau, Moldova

## Interdisciplinary links in Citizendium[edit]

* Earth science
* Stage (geology)
* Age (geology)
* Geologic time scale
* Geologic ages of earth history
* Chronostratigraphy
* Geochronology
* Geochronometry
* Biostratigraphy
* Palynology

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