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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4575-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4575-2020
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22 Sep 2020
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Hydrology and beyond: the scientific work of August Colding revisited

Dan Rosbjerg

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Cited articles

Bazin, H.: Recherches hydrauliques sur l'écoulement de l'eau dans les canaux découvertes et sur la propagation des endes, Dunod, Paris, France, 1865. 
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Colding, L. A.: Nogle Sætninger om Kræfterne (Treatise concerning forces), printed 1856 in Videnskabernes Selskabs (Note: “Videnskabernes Selskab” refers to “The Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters”) Forhandlinger, 3–20, 1843/1856. 
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August Colding contributed the first law of thermodynamics, evaporation from water and grass, steady free surfaces in conduits, the cross-sectional velocity distribution in conduits, a complete theory for the Gulf Stream, air speed in cyclones, the piezometric surface in confined aquifers, the unconfined elliptic water table in soil between drain pipes, and the wind-induced set-up in the sea during storms.