CVE 5741 - Hydrology

• Use geographic information systems and public information sources to obtain hydrologic data
• Determine the boundaries of a watershed, its time of concentration, and its infiltration characteristics  
• Calculate infiltration, evapotranspiration, snowmelt, and runoff using various methods including water balance
• Disaggregate hydrographs into base and wet weather flow components
• Develop calibrated and synthetic unit hydrographs and apply unit hydrograph theory to develop storm hydrographs
• Characterize river flow and precipitation data using statistical methods including estimating return intervals of extreme hydrologic phenomena
• Perform hydrologic modeling of a watershed using a deterministic computer model (i.e. HEC-HMS) for purposes of analysis and design.
• Perform transfer function modeling of the rainfall-temperature-streamflow relationship for purposes of analysis and design

• Familiarity with Green-Ampt Equation, level pool routing, and NRCS hydrology
• Familiarity with statistical concepts such as mean, standard deviation, skew, probability density functions and cumulative distribution functions
• Ability to perform least squares regression
• Conceptual understanding of ordinary and partial differential equations

• Precipitation: Weather systems, point and area precipitation, water balance, rainfall distributions.
• Watershed characteristics and data: Watershed delineation, watershed geomorphology, watershed data sources
• Runoff generation: Soil and cover characteristics evaporation, infiltration, curve numbers
• Stream flow: Developing unit hydrographs from stream gage records, synthetic unit hydrographs, time of concentration
• Probabilistic approaches: Probability concepts, probabilistic models of design flow rates, regional analysis, probability distributions, Bulletin 17C
• Deterministic modeling of events: Introduction to deterministic modeling, introduction to HEC-HMS, HEC-HMS modeling with applications, model calibration
• Transfer function hydrologic modeling: Introduction to H2O Metrics, Antecedent Moisture Model and linear transfer function model, antecedent moisture retention
• Term project: introduction, time of concentration, Antecedent moisture model, HEC-HMS model, report outline