Course detail

Hydrology

FAST-BS02Acad. year: 2011/2012

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 avapotranspiration, 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, probabilitity and statistical methods used in hydrology for hydrological data processing, real and artificial discharge series.
Operative hydrology, simulation and prediction models of rainfall-runoff processs and river basin water discharge, modelling of river basin discharge during floods.


Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic knowledge of water in nature and water circulation, overview of basic hydrological quantities.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of higher mathematics, physics, probability theory and statistics, basic knowledge of hydraulics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction, basic terms, river basin, rainfall-runoff process
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

Not applicable.

Aims

Basic knowledge of water in nature and water circulation, 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.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Chow Ven Te: Handbook of Applied Hydrology: A Compendium of Water Resources Technology. Published by McGraw Hill Text, 1964. (EN)
Kemel M.: Klimatologie, meteorologie, hydrologie. ČVUT Praha, 1996. (CS)
Sommer, M.: Hydrologie. SNTL Praha, 1995. (CS)

Recommended reading

HYDROLOGY, National Engineering Handbook 4. US, SPB, 734pp, Cat. No. NEH 4, SCS, 1985. (EN)
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

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

39 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer