Top products from r/Hydrology
We found 12 product mentions on r/Hydrology. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
6. The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Vintage Books, Jan 12, 1959 - 210 pages
7. Hydraulics of Groundwater (Dover Books on Engineering)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
8. Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
9. Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
10. Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
11. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
12. ASUS ROG STRIX AMD Gaming Laptop, Ryzen 7 1700, Radeon RX580 4GB, 17.3” FHD FreeSync Display, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Video Editing, GL702ZC
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
AMD 8-Core RYZEN 7 1700 Processor, 3.0 GHz (16M Cache, up to 3.7 GHz) for desktop-level computing performanceAMD Radeon RX580 4GB built on Polaris architecture for incredible VR and HD gaming. Bluetooth 4.216GB DDR4 memory, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD for ideal balance of OS drive speed and storage17.3" Wid...
I'm an extreme water nerd.
I agree with all of geocurious' recommendations. For textbooks, those are the main ones for groundwater, especially. Fetter is another mainstay. I'm sure you can find the textbooks easily enough.
As for less academic, Cadillac Desert is good and goes into the policy behind U.S. dam building (which is long but interesting). Water: The epic struggle... is a history of the world with some interesting connections to water (though doesn't get enough into the water, from my perspective).
As for beautiful writing about water, I can't recommend Loren Eiseley enough. The Immense Journey has some really great chapters about water (and then goes on and on about human evolution, but still ok). A really neat excerpt book about geologic themes is Bedrock and that is how I found my pal, Loren.
I have also been amassing a public Spotify playlist of songs that have a hydro-theme. Message me if you want it. Sitting at a couple hundred songs right now, but definitely biased towards my musical interests.
Other books:
A good list by someone else: Aguanomics
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Another favorite book is 'damming the Colorado river' from Robert h. Webb. It's a history piece from like third expedition down the Colorado river where an engineer named Birdseye and a team of surveyors and photographers mapped reservoir locations. The best part is their journals and gear lists, transcribed word for word so you can see what kind of equipment they had, who hated who, and so on. Really fun read as you get into it and there's a lot of hydro involved
Edit: Got the title wrong. We should have a book thread though
http://www.amazon.com/Damming-Grand-Canyon-Colorado-Expedition/dp/0874216605
I'm studying internal seiching - which is a large standing wave that occurs on the interface between warm and cold water in a lake. These are waves act on the entire length of a lake at once, and can amplitudes of 10's of meters. They are often one of the biggest drivers of water movements within a lake. While people have been studying them for decades, and in general they're well understood, there's still work to be done once the shape of the lakes starts becoming more complex.
For books, I'd recommend "Limnology" by Wetzel as a starting off point. I've still only read the first 4 or 5 chapters because that's the only part that pertains to physical limnology. I should read the rest of the book so I have a better understanding of the biological/ecological aspects of these systems.
I had these text books:
one, two, three, four
And I loved this book Cadillac Desert ; there's a lot more .....
As a follow up, here is what an 8-core laptop will do (look at quad and multi core performance): http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-1700-vs-Intel-Core-i5-5200U/3917vsm22169
https://www.amazon.com/Gaming-FreeSync-Display-Editing-GL702ZC/dp/B077GBJCNC
I strongly encourage you not to buy this kind of laptop because running a laptop for hard-core calculations will end in premature failure. They can't handle the heat they make. If you need to do 10 minutes of calculations then sure, get this Asus laptop but if you plan to let it run overnight then I doubt you'll get more than a few months out of a computer like this before it starts to act funny from hardware failures.