Hydrology: An Introduction

This textbook is absolutely fantastic! It covers all of the mathematical analysis and their derivations in a clear and concise manner. In addition, the book is written in literary prose and filled with wonderful factoids regarding hydrology. Definitely two thumbs up!

Gift for grandson. He is deep into it. Excellent!!!!!! A real educational text/hand book for a serious person. Great Job.

As mentioned by a previous low reviewer, this book is not truly an "introduction" in the way we typically consider introductory material. Brutsaert assumes you know your calculus and how to apply it. However, the book is absolutely grade A material for those interested in fundamental concepts of hydrologic sciences of any kind. Any class emphasizing this as the primary text will be excellent (assuming the professor can keep pace and delve into the subject matter).

This textbook is a widely recommended hydrology primer for first year grad students or late undergrads and for this role I think it is written well. Students would benefit from taking a rigorous course in fluid mechanics (with solutions to ODEs, PDEs) before this one, though I do not think there are any other prerequisites. My reservations with this book are two-fold: 1. I found the section on atmospheric turbulence to be relatively confusing and poorly written in explaining the physical interpretation of turbulent flux transfers. 2. Many times, the author skips algebra steps which are not intuitive--and I say this as a student with an undergraduate degree in physics--and is overly fond of saying "trivial" and "clearly" and "with a quick transformation" and so on. I would personally recommend Dingman's physical hydrology book though this one is satisfactory.

Interesting reference. I gave it three stars because it is not easy to read on my Kindle fire.

The book was in pretty good shape. No writing inside and the sides were just a little worn.