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 in 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. Exercise 1: Watershed delineation, downloading and importing DEM
    1. TNM Download
    2. StreamStats
    3. HEC-HMS Terrain
  4. Lecture 3: Precipitation
  5. Lecture 4: Precipitation data
  6. Homework 2: HEC-HMS tutorial
  7. Lecture 5: Intensity-duration-frequency curve
  8. Quiz 1: Hydrologic budget
    1. Exercise 2: HEC-HMS modeling
  9. Exercise 3: HEC-HMS modeling
  10. Lecture 6: Development of IDF curves
    1. Example 4.2
    2. Problem 4.17
    3. Example 4.3
    4. Example 4.4
    5. Example 4.5
    6. Homework 3: IDF curves
  11. No class: NSF DISES project meeting in Taos, NM
  12. Design storm
    1. Homework 4: Design storm
  13. Quiz 2
    1. IDF and design storm
  14. Lecture 7: Interception and depression storage
    1. Homework 5: Depression storage
  15. Lecture 8: Soil properties
    1. Problem 6.1
  16. Lecture 9: Curve number
  17. Lecture 10: Calculating curve numbers in QGIS
    1. Example 7.4
  18. Midterm exam
  19. Lecture 11: Hydrograph
  20. Example 9.1
    1. Homework 6: Hydrograph
  21. Midterm exam review
  22. Quiz 3
  23. Project help
  24. Homework review
  25. Quiz review
  26. Mockup final exam
  27. Mockup final exam review
  28. No class: Seminar and workshop at Osaka Metropolitan University
    1. Study for the final exam
    2. Work on your project
  29. Final exam
  30. Project due

2   Past materials