GEOL 518 Hydrologic Analysis

Syllabus

Schedule

Date

Topic

Readings

Notes

Homework/Project

Aug-26

Introduction – Physical Hydrology review

  Lecture 1  

Aug-28

Project introduction, Statistical vocabulary,

McCuen 30-60
bulletin17b.pdf
Lecture 2  

Sep-2

Probability distributions and statistical moments, Fitting probability distributions to data,   Lecture 3

College station examples

 

Sep-4

Hypothesis testing, goodness of fit, homework

Assign homework 5-7, 5-9, 5-19, 5-21, 5-25, 5-29, 5-35, 5-41, 5-43, 5-45, 5-47

 

Sep-9

Example 5-1

McCuen 239-289 Lecture 5

ex5.1.xls

reynoldspoject.doc

outletweir.txt

Sep-11

Other topics Kjelstrom.pdf
Kjelstrom.xls
Thomas94.xls
   

Sep-16

  http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/bobee01/bobee01.html    

Sep-18

model intro Dingman Ch 2 model08.doc
http://hydrologicmodels.tamu.edu/
GMS tutorial

Sep-23

1D groundwater

finite difference

1D analytical solution Lecture9_gwmodeling.doc  
Sep-25   1D and 2D finite difference methods Lecture 10  
Sep-30   No class    

Oct-2

  Transient finite difference methods, excel example    

Oct-7

  Transient excel demonstration Oct7.doc

Transientb.xls

 

Oct-9

GMS tutorial, october9.doc

Oct-14

Watershed Modeling Project dhsvm.doc October14.doc
Project

Oct-16

Oct-21

Oct-23

WMS HEC1, McCuen 211-218 October23.doc Select a calibration storm from Dry Creek data.

Oct-28

  Ponce_cn.pdf October28.doc Create set of design storms - due Nov 6

Oct-30

       

Nov-4

       

Nov-6

       

Nov-11

  McCuen Chapter 9 nov11.doc
unithydrographs.ppt
 

Nov-13

  kinematic.pdf    

Nov-18

     

Nov-20

Benaman.pdf
confesor.pdf
kim.pdf
gupta.pdf
calibrationcomparison.pdf
nash_sutcliffe.pdf
ungaged.pdf

lickcal.pdf

Nov-25

THANKSGIVING

Nov-27

THANKSGIVING

     

Dec-2

CMWH.pdf calibration.doc

Dec-4

Dec-9

pointmodel.doc Dec_9.doc

Dec-11

final08.doc
Dec-16 Finals Weeks AGU - no meeting