Hydrology – BLUE INFRAS

H6. Subsurface Movement of Water

0 Comments aquifers, Capillary, confining, equipotential, ground water, saturated, Subsurface, unsaturated, Vadose, Water table

Instructional Objectives The learner will be able to learn after this lesson: The modes of water movement below How underground

H5. Design Flood Estimation

0 Comments Barrages, Base period, California, Coffer dams, Cross drainage, design flood, Design Flood Estimation, Diversion, flood frequency, flood peak, Gumbel, Hazen, hydraulic structure, hydro-meteorological, IDF, Indian Standard, Log – normal, Normal, Pearson Type III, Plotting positions, Probable Maximum Flood, return period, Standard Project Flood, statistical approach, Storage Dams, Time of concentration, Weibull, weirs

Instructional Objectives After finishing this lesson, you will understand: 1. How is a design flood for a specific hydraulic structure

rainfall runoff

H4. Rainfall Runoff Relationships

0 Comments catchment, GIS, GRASS, HEC-GeoHMS, HEC-HMS, hydrograph, modeling, Rainfall, Rainfall intensity, Rainfall Runoff Relationships, Runoff, TOPMODEL, Unit Hydrograph

Instructional Objectives We will study the following at the conclusion of this lesson: 1. How hydrograph varies with catchment features

runoff

H3. Runoff and Infiltration

1 Comment base flow, base flow separation, depression storage, Effective rainfall, hydraulic conductivity, hydrograph, hyetograph, Infiltration, Infiltration indices, interception, interflow, overland flow, piezometric head, Runoff, vadose zone

Instructional Objectives The learner should be able to learn the following by the end of this lesson: the significance of

H2. Evapotranspiration

0 Comments Actual Evapotranspiration, Energy balance method, evapotranspiration, Evapotranspiration gauges, Lysimeters, Mass transfer method, Pan evaporation, Potential Evapotranspiration, Soil water depletion method, Water balance method

The hydrologic cycle is completed by evapotranspiration, a process that restores water to the atmosphere. Evaporation and transpiration make up

H1. Precipitation

Arithmetic, evapotranspiration, Isohyetal, precipitation, Theissen

Precipitation refers to water falling from the atmosphere to Earth’s surface. Instructional Goals After finishing this lesson, the learner will