Course Details

Hydropedology

Academic Year 2024/25

DSB023 course is part of 4 study plans

​ DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

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)

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/283700

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.