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
Contents
1 Lectures
- Syllabus review
- Lecture 1: Introduction to surface water hydrology
- Lecture 2: Hydrologic cycle, budget, and models
- Lecture 3: Precipitation
- Lecture 4: Intensity-duration-frequency curve
- Lecture 5: Example 4.4
- Homework 2: IDF curves
- StreamStats
- USGS streamflow data
- NCDC weather data
- Exercise 1: Watershed delineation, downloading and importing DEM
- TNM Download
- StreamStats
- HEC-HMS Terrain
- Abdullah’s HEC-HMS session (2026 CIROH Annual Science Meeting)
- Abdullah’s HEC-HMS session (2026 CIROH Annual Science Meeting)
- Lecture 6: Design storm
- Lecture 7: Design storm
- Homework 3: Design storm: Create the 100-year 24-hour design storm for the Mossman Arroyo Dam watershed (latitude 32.1788, longitude -106.6631) using Atlas 14 and the alternating block method. Use a 1-hour time step. Show me your full work. If you use any code, please copy it into your report. As a final outcome, include your final design storm hyetograph.
- Lecture 8: Interception and depression storage
- Lecture 9: Soil properties
- Quiz 1
- Lecture 10: Hydrologic modeling
- Proposal presentations
- Lecture 11: Evaporation and transpiration
- Homework 4: Example 6.2