Hydrological Processes (I)

Summer Session

1.    Review of hydrologic cycle, hydrologic processes and watershed Introduction: Hydrological cycle, Watershed components, Watershed water budget, basic equations, all sub-processes.

2.    Precipitation (rainfall and snow): variation, measurement, IDF curve.

3.   Interception: influencing factors, big leaf approach, different models.

4.   Evapotranspiration (Evaporation, transpiration): Energy balance, PET, AET, energy based models, temperature based models, and combined. models.

5.  Infiltration: control factors, Darcy¡¯s law, Horton model, Holton model, Green-Ampt model, measurement.

6.  Surface runoff and routing: SCS, HRU, VSA, channel routing, reservoir routing.

7.Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport: Hillslope processes, sediment yield, sediment transport, deposition, sediment routing.

8.Non-point pollution: Nutrients (N and P), Pesticide, Toxins.

9.Pollution load and fate: sources, forms, transport, accumulation and biological effect.

Hydrological Modeling (II)

             Summer Session

10. Review-Integrated response of the catchment ¨C the sum of all processes: storm runoff, rational method, New water and old water, flood analysis, UH;

11.Introduction of hydrological modeling: philosophy, types, advantages and disadvantages;

12.  Hydrological modeling and GIS: digital data, watershed delineation, spatial variation

13.  BASINS

14. SWAT

15. WEPP

16. TOP

17. HSPF

18. AGNPS

19. ANSWERS

20. Reviews of model method analysis: analytical and numerical methods, Stella Models, model uncertainties, calibration, validation, and sensitivity, equifinality 

Main references:

Chow, V.T., D.R. Maidment, and L.W. Mays, Applied Hydrology, McGraw Hill Book Co. New York, 572, 1988.

Hornberger, G.M., J.P. Reffensperger, P.L. Wiberg, and K.N. Eshelman, Elements of Physical Hydrology, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1998.

James, A., An Introduction to Water Quality Modelling, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1984.

Task Committee on Hydrology Handbook, American Society of Civil Engineers,1996, Hydrology handbook, New York: The Society.

Dunne, T. and Leopold, L.B., 1978. Water in environmental planning, Freeman Publishers