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