Course detail
Hydrology
FAST-BS02Acad. year: 2016/2017
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.
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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 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.
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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)
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