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
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
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
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