LEARNING OUTCOMES

Objectives of the training: to acquire the basics of meteorology, hydrology and technical hydrology with particular regard to the study of atmospheric circulation and meteorological phenomena, the measurement of precipitation, the statistical analysis of rainfall variables, the morphometric characterization of the basin and the study of the basin's hydrological balance equation, level and flow rate measurements and flood propagation.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course focuses on the following aspects:
• knowledge of the main phenomena occurring in the atmosphere with particular regard to the formation of precipitation
• knowledge of the main measurement techniques for the assessment and monitoring of precipitation
• definition of the main characteristics of a hydrological basin
• knowledge of the main processes occurring within the basin during the transformation of the outlet into the outflow
• knowledge of the main techniques for correct assessment of hydraulic risk

At the end of the course the student will have to know the main theoretical aspects related to meteorology and hydrology, to be able to describe at a theoretical level the main phenomena affecting the water cycle and to know the most suitable methods and instruments to be used in the analysis

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures of the first semester will be carried out in classroom, if possible. However, online streaming and video recording (synchronous or asynchronous) will be guaranteed. Likewise, practical activities will take place in laboratory, with multiple shifts if necessary. All classroom and laboratory activities will be carried out in compliance with the capacity limits of the classrooms / laboratories and the distance required by current legislation following the emergency COVID19.

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SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• The atmosphere (composition, thermal balance, radiation measurement, vertical temperature distribution, air circulation)
• Precipitation (formation, classification, measurement,  extreme events)
• Hydrographic basin (identification, classification, morphometric characteristics, coefficients of form, time of overflow, description of river geomorphology)
• Hydrologic Balance (inflow, basin loss, surface outflow, evaporation, evaporimeters, evapotranspiration, methods of measurement evapotranspiration, interception, infiltration: theoretical models and measurement methods)
• Surface outflows (flow and flow measurements, hydrometers and hydrometrographs, speed measurements in watercourses, flow rate calculations, flow rates, baseline analysis of hydrometric observations, analysis of the hydrographic program and full hydrography, Flow rate)
• The Propagation of overflow (translation and lamination, mathematical models: De Saint Venant equation)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes distributed throughout the course

“Idrologia: il ciclo dell’acqua e i suoi effetti” di Mauro Greppi (Ed: Hoepli)
“Idrologia Tecnica” di Ugo Moisello (Ed: La Goliardica Pavese s.r.l.)