Course Details

Hydrology

Academic Year 2024/25

DS71 course is part of 1 study plan

D-K-C-SI (N) / VHS Summer Semester 1st year

Fundaments of stochastic hydrology, modeling of artificial flow series, modelling of synthetic rainfall, problems of temporal and spatial rainfall distribution, meteorological radars and meteorological satelites, numerical meteorological prediction models, models of rainfall - runoff process in small and big river basins, operative prediction of river basin runoff, extreme flows

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge of higher mathematics, statistics and probability theory, physics. Detailed knowledge of hydrology (magister study level)

Aims

Ability of detailed orientation in problems of hydrology, independent solution of difficult hydrological tasks, theoretical knowledge for following PhD. study aimed at water management problems
Doktorand gains knowledge for applikation stochastic hydrology and operative hydrology methods in thesis

Basic Literature

Chow Ven Te: Handbook of Applied Hydrology. Published by McGraw Hill Text 1964
Ram S. Gupta: Hydrology and Hydraulic Systems. Waveland Press 2007

Recommended Reading

Samuel D. Brody, Wesley E. Highfield, Jung Eun Kang: The Causes and Consequences of Flooding in the United States. Cambridge University Press 2011
Wagener, T. - Wheater, H.S. - Gupta, H.V.: Rainfall-Runoff Mmodelling in Gauged and Ungauged Catchments. Imperial College Press 2004

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Fundaments of stochastic hydrology 2. Modeling of artificial flow series 3. Modelling of synthetic rainfall 4. Assessment of spatial distribution of rainfall above the river basin 5. Meteorological radars and meteorological satelites 6. Numerical meteorological prediction models 7. Models of rainfall - runoff process in small small river basins 8. Models of rainfall - runoff process in big river basins 9.-11. Operative prediction of river basin runoff 12.-13. Extreme flows