Course Details
Hydropedology
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Basic Literature
ROWELL,D.L.: Soil Science, Methods and Applications, Longman Group UK, 2016, ISBN 13: 978-0-582-08784-2 (en)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav, NIELSEN, D.R.: Soil Hydrology, Catena Verlang, Germany, 1994 (en)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav a KURÁŽ, Václav a CÍSLEROVÁ, Milena.: Hydropedologie, Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2000 (cs)
KODEŠOVÁ, R: Modelování v pedologii. Skriptum ČZU, Praha 2005 (cs)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav, NIELSEN, D.R.: Soil Hydrology, Catena Verlang, Germany, 1994 (en)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav a KURÁŽ, Václav a CÍSLEROVÁ, Milena.: Hydropedologie, Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2000 (cs)
KODEŠOVÁ, R: Modelování v pedologii. Skriptum ČZU, Praha 2005 (cs)
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Fundamentals of hydropedology.
- 2. Hydrostatic of soil – soil water potential.
- 3. Hydrodynamic of soil water.
- 4. Flow equations and their analysis.
- 5.–6. Hydraulic characteristics – approximating functions of retention curves, parametric evaluation of retention curves.
- 7. RETC program.
- 8. Infiltration.
- 9.–10. Variability of hydropedological quantities.
- 11. Hydropedological quantities as spatially random variables.
- 12.–13. Temperable flow – description of flow of dissolved substances and the analytical analysis of transport of dissolved substances.