Contents

1 Introduction
Section Page

1.1 OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE OF THE GUIDEBOOK 11

1.2 STRUCTURE AND USE OF THE GUIDEBOOK 12
1.3 ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER PUBLICATIONS 13
1.4 HYDROLOGY AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 14
1.5 PRINCIPAL STAGES OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT (PLANNING, DESIGN,
CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION) 15

Tables

1.1 ENGLISH LANGUAGE REFERENCES REFERRED TO FREQUENTLY IN GUIDEBOOK 16

1.2 SOURCES FOR ORDERING PUBLICATIONS REFERENCED BY THIS GUIDEBOOK 17
1.3 PROCEEDINGS OF RECENT INTERNATIONAL HYDROLOGICAL CONFERENCES
AND SYMPOSIA 26

REFERENCES 28

2 Overview of hydrological computations for water projects

Section

2.1 HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA AND THEIR PROCESSING 31

2.1.1 Introduction 31
2.1.2 Meteorological Data 31
2.1.3 Hydrological Data 31
2.1.3.1 Stage Data 32
2.1.3.2 Discharge Data 32
2.1.3.3 Sediment Discharge Data 32
2.1.4 Data Time Intervals 32
2.1.5 Statistical Properties of Data 32
2.1.6 Data Generation 33
2.1.7 Data Quality Control 33
2.2 INTRODUCTION TO HYDROLOGICAL TECHNIQUES AND THEIR RELATION TO SPECIFIC
TYPES OF WATER PROJECTS 34
2.2.1 Purpose 34
2.2.2 Regional Analysis for Generation of Missing Data 34
2.2.3 Reestablishment of Natural Flows 35
2.2.4 Analysis of Flow Variability 35
2.2.5 Hydrological Modelling 35
2.2.6 Other Hydrologie Techniques 36
2.2.7 Effects of Water Projects 37