OVERVIEW

The course provides the basic knowledge of the hydrological processes at the spatial and temporal scales of the drainage basin. Special attention is paid to the optimal use of the water resource for civil, industrial and energetic applications and for the defense from hydrologic hazards.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides the basic knowledge of the hydrological processes at the spatial and temporal scales of the drainage basin. Special attention is paid to the optimal use of the water resource for civil, industrial and energetic applications and for the defense from hydrologic hazards.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student will be able to formulate and use simple hydrologic balance, analysis and prediction models, and to evaluate the basin hydrologic response.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures 40 hrs, practical 16 hrs, seminars 4 hrs. Presentations used during teching hours are made available to the students at the beginning of the course through aulaweb.

Practical works on the main aspects of the program are evaluated as part of the final examination. The final examination consists in a discussion of practical works, integrated by oral questions. 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The hydrological cycle. The hydrological balance. Energetic balance and fluxes. Rudiments of hydro-meteorology: soil atmosphere interaction. Rainfall analysis and prediction: rainfall recordings, depth duration curves, space and time distribution of design rainfall. Evaporation and transpiration. Infiltration and surface runoff: interception, surface retention, infiltration. Flood formation: internal description on the hillslopes and in the network; external description, linear and quasi-linear models, IUH, GIUH. Global models, elements of distributed modelling.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bras R.L.: Hydrology, Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Chow V.T.: Maidment DR & Mays, LW, Applied Hydrology, McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Dingman S.L.: Physical Hydrology, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Eagleson P.S.: Dynamic Hydrology, EGU, 2003.

Maidment D.R. (ed.): Handbook of Hydrology, McGraw-Hill, 1992.

Brutsaert W.: Hydrology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Hornberger G.M. et al.: Elements of Physical Hydrology, JHU Press, 2014.

Musy A. et al.: Hydrology: A Science for Engineers, CRC Press, 2014.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LUCA GIOVANNI LANZA (President)

GIORGIO ROTH (President)

ILARIA GNECCO

PAOLO LA BARBERA

ANGELA CELESTE TARAMASSO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

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Class schedule

HYDROLOGY I

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written and oral examination.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

La prova scritta consiste nella redazione, in corso d’anno, di una relazione, nella forma di consulenza tecnica, finalizzata all’analisi di un evento di pioggia intensa e dei suoi effetti al suolo alla scala di bacino idrografico. La relazione è personale e deve essere consegnata sette giorni prima della data fissata per la prova orale. La prova orale consiste nella presentazione e discussione, in tempi stabiliti, della relazione, integrata da due/tre domande inerenti gli argomenti trattati nelle lezioni frontali e nelle esercitazioni. Le domande sono principalmente finalizzate ad accertare le capacità operative acquisite dallo studente.

Exam schedule