Course Details

Hydrology

Academic Year 2023/24

BSA002 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 3rd year

Course is focus on theoretical and practical learning of basic hydrological knowledge and applications, which are:

  • Description of basic the water cycle.
  • Theory of the rainfall - runoff process in a watershed and rainfall - runoff transformation.
  • Description of basic climatological measures and meteorological measurement in a river basin.
  • Description of basic river basin geographic measures and methods of an evaluations.
  • Water-level gauge and water discharge measurement.
  • Introduction to mathematical probability and statistic in applied hydrology.
  • Hydrological data processing, time series in hydrology.
  • Introduction to stochastic hydrology, theory of stochastic processes.
  • Water courses and river network and extreme flows.
  • Simulation and prediction models of rainfall-runoff processes. Introduction to rainfall-runoff modelling.
  • Fluvial processes and sediments.
  • Ground water, springs and aquifer flows.

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Daniel Marton, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Objective

Basic knowledge of water in nature and natural water cycle. An overview of basic hydrological measures and their monitoring and measurement. Quantification of hydrological variables and their relationship. Rainfall - runoff modelling, introduction to stochastic hydrology, prediction of water stages and flows. An information on water bodies according to EU legislature.

Knowledge

Basic knowledge of water in nature and natural water cycle, overview of basic hydrological measures and their measurements. Statistical analysis of hydrological data. Hydrological modelling and introduction to stochastic hydrology.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, basic terms, river basin, rainfall-runoff process.
  2. Climatological measures - precipitation.
  3. Climatological measures - atmospheric humidity, evaporation.
  4. Geographical measures of a river basin.
  5. Water level and water discharge measurement.
  6. Statistical analysis of hydrological data.
  7. Approximation of empirical distributions by theoretical distributions used in hydrology, regression models.
  8. Analysis of hydrological time series, basic of stochastic hydrology, artificial discharge series.
  9. Derivation of discharge series, determination of annual flow, introduction to extreme discharges.
  10. Methodology of evaluation of maximum and minimum discharges.
  11. Prediction of water level and discharges, basic types of models.
  12. Fluvial processes and sediments.
  13. Ground water, springs and aquifer flows.

Prerequisites

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

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/273091

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, basic terms, river basin, rainfall-runoff process.
  2. Climatological measures - precipitation.
  3. Climatological measures - atmospheric humidity, evaporation.
  4. Geographical measures of a river basin.
  5. Water level and water discharge measurement.
  6. Statistical analysis of hydrological data.
  7. Approximation of empirical distributions by theoretical distributions used in hydrology, regression models.
  8. Analysis of hydrological time series, basic of stochastic hydrology, artificial discharge series.
  9. Derivation of discharge series, determination of annual flow, introduction to extreme discharges.
  10. Methodology of evaluation of maximum and minimum discharges.
  11. Prediction of water level and discharges, basic types of models.
  12. Fluvial processes and sediments.
  13. Ground water, springs and aquifer flows.

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Geographical measures of river basin.
  2. Average total rainfall in the catchment.
  3. Rainfall intensity evaluation.
  4. Determination of theoretical rainfall intensity in a small catchment.
  5. Snow melting - Degree a day method.
  6. Hydrometric evaluation.
  7. Time series analysis and statistical processing of the real flow serie.
  8. Time series analysis and statistical processing of the real flow serie. 
  9. Generation of synthetic flow series.
  10. Maximum flow determination from the measured data.
  11. Maximum flow determination in the gauging profile of a small basin.
  12. Minimum flow determination from the measured data.
  13. Final output evaluation of practical session.