Hydrology
Instructor: Kaleris Vasilios
Course code: 5604
Semester: 6ο
e-class:
Course content:

  1. Hydrologic cycle.
  2. Hydrologic budget.
  3. Precipitation, methods of measurement, observation networks, analysis of precipitation data, areal precipitation, intensity-duration-return period curves.
  4. Evaporation and evapotranspiration, methods of measurement, methods of calculation.
  5. Stream flow, discharge measurements.
  6. Characteristics of storm period hydrographs.
  7. Unit hydrograph, derivation of unit hydrographs, estimation of precipitation losses, S-hydrograph and lagging methods, synthetic methods of unit hydrographs.
  8. Frequency analysis: concepts of probability, types of probability distributions, frequency factors.


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