Syllabus/achievement requirements

Dingman, S.L. (2002) Physical hydrology (2nd edition). Prentice-Hall.

The following chapters and appendices are mandatory:

  • Ch. 6 Water in soils: infiltration and redistribution (without: 6.6 ‘Quantitative modelling of infiltration at a point’, and 6.7 ‘Infiltration over areas & Redistribution’, and boxes 6.1, 6.2 & 6.3)

  • Ch. 7 Evapotranspiration

  • Ch. 8 Ground water in the hydrologic cycle (without: 8.5 ‘Evaluation of ground-water-balance components’)

  • Ch. 9 Stream response to water-input events (without 9.3 ‘Open-channel flow and streamflow routing’, and 9.6.2 ‘SCS Curve-number method’)

  • App A Hydrologic quantities
  • App B Water as a substance (without: B3 ‘Flow equations’)
  • App C Basic statistics
  • App D Water and energy in the atmosphere
  • App E Estimation of daily clear-sky solar radiation on sloping surfaces (without: E2 ‘Radiation on a sloping plane’)
  • App F Stream-gauging methods for short-term studies

Recommended additional literature

  • C.W.Fetter (2001) Applied hydrogeology (4th edition). Prentice Hall.
  • Grip, H. & Rodhe, A.: Vattnets v?g fr?n regn til back.
  • Nedb?r- avl?ps prosesser (hydrological conditions in Norway).

For some topics additional learning material will be available from the internet / classfronter.

Exercises

Exercises and old exams will be available on the internet / classfronter.

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