Fractal River Basins Chance and Self-Organization [Paperback]

This book provides a theoretical basis to the arrangement of river basins and networks.This paperback of a successful book considers river basins and drainage networks in the light of their scaling and multi-scaling properties, and the dynamics responsible for their development. Hydrologists and geomorphologists will find that this book opens up the important topic of the fractal structure of networks at an accessible level. Mathematicians and physicists will appreciate the application of the theory to this aspect of the earth sciences. Comprehensive, well illustrated and with many real-world examples, Fractal River Basins will be useful to researchers and students alike. The hardback received many excellent reviews.This paperback of a successful book considers river basins and drainage networks in the light of their scaling and multi-scaling properties, and the dynamics responsible for their development. Hydrologists and geomorphologists will find that this book opens up the important topic of the fractal structure of networks at an accessible level. Mathematicians and physicists will appreciate the application of the theory to this aspect of the earth sciences. Comprehensive, well illustrated and with many real-world examples, Fractal River Basins will be useful to researchers and students alike. The hardback received many excellent reviews.This volume considers river basins and drainage networks in the light of their scaling and multi-scaling properties, and the dynamics responsible for their development.1. A view of river basins; 2. Fractal characteristics of river basins; 3. Multifractal characteristics of river basins; 4. Optimal channel networks: minimum energy and fractal structures; 5. Self-organized fractal river networks; 6. On landscape self-organization; 7. Geomorphological hydrologic response; 8. References. ...rigorous and engaging...However one looks at the subject, Fractal River Basins is an important book...Geomorphologists and physicists alike willƒ”