CE 483 - Surface Water Hydrology

Required textbook: Introduction to Hydrology, 5th Edition by Warren Viessman, Jr. and Gary L. Lewis (2002)

Recommended textbook: Physical Hydrology, 3rd Edition by S. Lawrence Dingman (2015)

Offered every Fall semester, graduate version as a section in CE 503

1   Lectures

  1. Syllabus review
    1. Lecture 1: Introduction to surface water hydrology
  2. Lecture 2: Hydrologic cycle, budget, and models
    1. Homework 1: Hydrologic budget
  3. Lecture 3: Precipitation
    1. Homework 2: Areal precipitation
  4. Exercise 1: Watershed delineation, downloading and importing DEM
    1. TNM Download
    2. StreamStats
    3. HEC-HMS Terrain
  5. Exercise 2: HEC-HMS
  6. Lecture 4: GIS analyses
    1. Flow direction
    2. Flow accumulation
    3. Watershed delineation
    4. Stream network extraction
  7. Quiz 1

2   Past materials