List of contributors; Foreword Thomas Dunne; Preface Günter Blöschl, Murugesu Sivapalan, Thorsten Wagener, Alberto Viglione and Hubert Savenije; 1. Introduction Günter Blöschl, Murugesu Sivapalan, Thorsten Wagener, Alberto Viglione and Hubert Savenije; 2. A synthesis framework for runoff predictions in ungauged basins Thorsten Wagener, Günter Blöschl, David Goodrich, Hoshin V. Gupta, Murugesu Sivapalan, Yasuto Tachikawa, Peter Troch and Markus Weiler; 3. A data acquisition framework for predictions of runoff in ungauged basins Brian McGlynn, Günter Blöschl, Marco Borga, Helge Bormann, Ruud Hurkmans, Jürgen Komma, Lakshman Nandagiri, Remko Uijlenhoet and Thorsten Wagener; 4. Process realism: flow paths and storage Dörthe Tetzlaff, Ghazi Al-Rawas, Günter Blöschl, Sean K. Carey, Ying Fan, Markus Hrachowitz, Robert Kirnbauer, Graham Jewitt, Hjalmar Laudon, Kevin J. McGuire, Takahiro Sayama, Chris Soulsby, Erwin Zehe and Thorsten Wagener; 5. Prediction of annual runoff in ungauged basins Thomas McMahon, Gregor Laaha, Juraj Parajka, Murray C. Peel, Hubert Savenije, Murugesu Sivapalan, Jan Szolgay, Sally Thompson, Alberto Viglione, Ross Woods and Dawen Yang; 6. Prediction of seasonal runoff in ungauged basins R. Weingartner, Günter Blöschl, David Hannah, Danny Marks, Juraj Parajka, Charles Pearson, Magdalena Rogger, Jose Luis. Salinas, Eric Sauquet, Sri Srikanthan, Sally Thompson and Alberto Viglione; 7. Prediction of flow duration curves in ungauged basins Attilio Castellarin, Gianluca Botter, Denis A. Hughes, Suxia Liu, Taha B. M. J. Ouarda, Juraj Parajka, David Post, Murugesu Sivapalan, Christopher Spence, Alberto Viglione and Richard Vogel; 8. Prediction of low flows in ungauged basins Gregor Laaha, Siegfried Demuth, Hege Hisdal, Charles N. Kroll, Henny A. J. van Lanen, Thomas Nester, Magdalena Rogger, Eric Sauquet, Lena M. Tallaksen, Ross Woods and Andy Young; 9. Prediction of floods in ungauged basins Dan Rosbjerg, Günter Blöschl, Donald H. Burn, Attilio Castellarin, Barry Croke, Guliano Di Baldassarre, Vito Iacobellis, Thomas Kjeldsen, George Kuczera, Ralf Merz, Alberto Montanari, David Morris, Taha B. M. J. Ouarda, Liliang Ren, Magdalena Rogger, Jose Luis Salinas, Elena Toth and Alberto Viglione; 10. Predictions of runoff hydrographs in ungauged basins Juraj Parajka, Vazken Andréassian, Stacey Archfield, András Bárdossy, Francis Chiew, Qingyun Duan, Alexander Gelfan, Kamila Hlav¿ová, Ralf Merz, Neil McIntyre, Ludovic Oudin, Charles Perrin, Magdalena Rogger, Jose Luis Salinas, Hubert Savenije, Jon Olav Skøien, Thorsten Wagener, Erwin Zehe and Yongqiang Zhang; 11. Case studies Hubert Savenije, Murugesu Sivapalan, Trent Biggs, Shaofeng Jia, Leonid M. Korytny, E.A.Ilyichyova, Boris Gartsman, John W. Pomeroy, Kevin Shook, Xing Fang, Tom Brown, Denis A. Hughes, Stacey Archfield, Jos Samuel, Paulin Coulibaly, Robert A. Metcalfe, Attilio Castellarin, Ralf Merz, Günter Humer, Ataur Rahman, Khaled Haddad, Erwin Weinmann, George Kuczera, Theresa Blume, Armand Crabit, François Colin, Roger Moussa, Hessel Winsemius, Hubert Savenije, Jens Liebe, Nick van de Giesen, M. Todd Walter, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Jeffrey R. Kennedy, David Goodrich, Carl L. Unkrich, Dominic Mazvimavi, Neil R. Viney, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, H. A. P. Hapuarachchi, Anthony S. Kiem, Hiroshi Ishidaira, Tianqi Ao, Jun Magome, Maichun C. Zhou, Mikhail Georgievski, Guoqiang Wang, Chihiro Yoshimura, Berit Arheimer, Göran Lindström and Shijun Lin; 12. Synthesis across processes, places and scales Hoshin V. Gupta, Günter Blöschl, Jeffrey McDonnell, Hubert Savenije, Murugesu Sivapalan, Alberto Viglione and Thorsten Wagener; 13. Recommendations Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Günter. Blöschl, Hubert Savenije, John Schaake, Murugesu Sivapalan, Alberto Viglione, Thorsten Wagener and Gordon Young; Appendix: summary of studies used in the comparative assessments; References; Index.