Course Details

Hydrology

Academic Year 2023/24

BS02 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

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.


Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

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.

Knowledge

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

Syllabus

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 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.

Prerequisites

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

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

7 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

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

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

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 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

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Geographic properties of catchment 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