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GEOL 781

Advanced Surface Water Hydrology

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Standard

Overview

Description

Theory and application of rainfall-runoff modeling including the use of large hydrometeorologic databases and statistics to identify design precipitation events.

Units

Lecture3

Learning Outcomes

  • explain atmospheric and hydrologic phenomena and how the systems are coupled.
  • describe these processes in terms of conservation equations.
  • solve these equations analytically/numerically.
  • synthesize the acquired knowledge to explain more complex hydroclimatic processes at the basin scale.