Course detail
Hydrology
FAST-BS02Acad. year: 2013/2014
Hydrosphere, watershed, rainfall - runoff process in watershed and its factors, factors influencing rainfall-runoff process, hydrologic losses and their quantification, hydrological network, instruments and devices, measurement of
atmospheric precipitation, evaporation and evapotranspiration, atmospheric humidity, water-level gauge and water discharge measurement, hydrological data processing, water courses and river network, maximum and minimum discharges, floating matters and sediments, ground water level and ground water runoff, balance of surface waters and groundwater.
Stochastic hydrology, theory of stochastic processes, probability and statistical methods used in hydrology for hydrological data processing, real and artificial discharge series.
Operative hydrology, simulation and prediction models of rainfall-runoff processes and river basin water discharge, modelling of river basin discharge during floods.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
overview of basic hydrological quantities
quantification of hydrological variables and their relationship
modeling of rainfall - runoff process
prediction of water gauge and flow
information on water bodies according to EU legislature
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Students pass the 13 basic lectures in classical and applied hydrology.
In practice, students process according to entering some basic hydrological task using computers and software available.
At the end of course test draw from the full range of lectures and pass the oral exam.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
♦ - be present in seminars,
♦ - have presentations of selected topics from hydrology,
♦ - hand over his presentations,
♦ - pass the tests,
♦ - oral exam.
Course curriculum
2. Precipitation
3. Atmospheric humidity, evaporation
4. Geographical factors of a river basin
5. Water-level gauge and water discharge measurement
6. Statistical processing of hydrological data
7. Approximation of empirical distributions by teoretical distributions used in hydrology, regress models
8. Analysis of hydrological series, basic stochastic hydrology, artificial discharge series
9. Derivation of discharge series, determination of Qa, introduction to extreme discharges
10. Maximum and minimum discharges
11. Prediction of water-level gauge and discharges, basic types of models
12. Floating matters and sediments
13. Ground water, springs, ground water runoff.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Kemel M.: Klimatologie, meteorologie, hydrologie. ČVUT Praha, 1996. (CS)
Sommer, M.: Hydrologie. SNTL Praha, 1995. (CS)
Recommended reading
Nacházel, K. - Starý, M. - Zezulák, J. a kol: Užití metod umělé inteligence ve vodním hospodářství. ACADEMIA Praha, 2004. (CS)
Philip B. Bedient - Wayne C. Huber: Hydrology & Floodplain Analysis. Published by Prentice Hall, 2002. (EN)
Starý, M. - Kožnárek, Z. - Soukalová, E.: Hydrologie. Návody do cvičení. ES VUT Brno, 1990. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's
branch V , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch V , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's
branch V , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's
branch V , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Precipitation
3. Atmospheric humidity, evaporation
4. Geographical factors of a river basin
5. Water-level gauge and water discharge measurement
6. Statistical processing of hydrological data
7. Approximation of empirical distributions by theoretical distributions used in hydrology, regress models
8. Analysis of hydrological series, basic stochastic hydrology, artificial discharge series
9. Derivation of discharge series, determination of Qa, introduction to extreme discharges
10. Maximum and minimum discharges
11. Prediction of water-level gauge and discharges, basic types of models
12. Floating matters and sediments
13. Ground water, springs, ground water runoff.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Average rainfall height in the catchment
3. Ombrogram evaluation
4. Determination of substitute rainfall intensity in a small catchment
5. Snow melting
6. Hydrometric pocket book evaluation
7. Analysis and statistical processing of the real flow series
8. Analysis and statistical processing of the real flow series
9. Synthetic flow series generating
10. Maximum flow determination from the measured data
11. Maximum flow determination in the last profile of a small basin
12. Minimum flow determination from the measured data
13. Check the reports and the credit