Hydrologic Elements and Analysis

Contents:

1. Introduction: Hydrological cycle, storage, water balance. 

2. Atmospheric Water System:Characteristics of Atmosphere, Atmospheric circulation patterns, weather systems, water vapour, precipitable water.

3. Precipitation: Precipitation types, measurements, analysis, mean precipitation, IDF and DAD analysis.

4. Hydrologic Abstractions: Interception and depression storage; Evaporation: Evaporation processes, Influencing factors, measurement and estimation; Evapotranspiration: measurement and estimation; Infiltration: Infiltration processes, factors affecting infiltration, measurement of infiltration, empirical and analytical models of infiltration.

5. Hydrometry: Gauge and discharge sites, site suitability, river stage, velocity measurement, area-velocity method, tracer techniques, stage-discharge relation.

6. Runoff: Factor affecting, runoff characteristics of stream, hydrograph-unit hydrograph, S-hydrograph, IUH, Clark and Nash IUH;flow duration analysis, flow mass analysis, estimation of peak runoff, time-area method of runoff computation.

7. Frequency Analysis: Random variables, Probability distribution functions: normal, log-normal, Gumbel, Pearson type-3 uniform distributions; Frequency analysis; Goodness of fit measures.

8. Groundwater: Types of aquifers, Darcy’s Law, Flow and storage parameters, well hydraulics.

9. Flood Routing: Governing equations, Hydrologic routing: Reservoir flood routing, Muskingum method. 

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