Course Description
A science-based presentation of the underlying principles of hydrologic processes, their quantification and measurement, sources and expected magnitude of measurement errors, and the integration of these processes into the hydrologic cycle. Topics include precipitation formation and characteristics, infiltration and soil moisture redistribution, evapotranspiration and runoff, storm response in streamflow on a watershed scale, concepts in groundwater systems and snow hydrology. Discussion will cover principles of the physical process, simulation of individual process by equations or models, instrumentation for measurement of the physical quantity, and areal distribution of measured values.
Course Objectives
The student, upon completion of this course, should be able to:
- Design and interpret data from a precipitation gage data set.
- Analyze a snow hydrology data set.
- Interpret infiltration and soil hydraulic property data and use the results to quantify governing equations for soil moisture redistribution.
- Understand the impact of atmospheric boundary layer processes on local and regional scale hydrologic processes.
- Perform evapotranspiratin estimates using available databasea and design ET measurement systems.
- Predict streamflow response to storm input.
- Understand the governing principles and equations of groundwater flow systems.
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