Course Details
Hydrology
Academic Year 2024/25
BS002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
7 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction, basic terms, river basin, rainfall-runoff process
2. Precipitation
3. Atmospheric humidity, evaporation
4. Geographical factors of a river basin
5. Water-level gauge and water discharge measurement
6. Statistical processing of hydrological data
7. Approximation of empirical distributions by theoretical distributions used in hydrology, regress models
8. Analysis of hydrological series, basic stochastic hydrology, artificial discharge series
9. Derivation of discharge series, determination of Qa, introduction to extreme discharges
10. Maximum and minimum discharges
11. Prediction of water-level gauge and discharges, basic types of models
12. Floating matters and sediments
13. Ground water, springs, ground water runoff.
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Geographic properties of catchment
2. Average rainfall height in the catchment
3. Ombrogram evaluation
4. Determination of substitute rainfall intensity in a small catchment
5. Snow melting
6. Hydrometric pocket book evaluation
7. a 8. Analysis and statistical processing of the real flow serie
9. Synthetic flow series generating
10. Maximum flow determination from the measured data
11. Maximum flow determination in the last profile of a small basin
12. Minimum flow determination from the measured data
13. Check the reports and the credit