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
  4. Lecture 4: Intensity-duration-frequency curve
  5. Lecture 5: Example 4.4
    1. Homework 2: IDF curves
    2. StreamStats
    3. USGS streamflow data
    4. NCDC weather data
  6. Exercise 1: Watershed delineation, downloading and importing DEM
    1. TNM Download
    2. StreamStats
    3. HEC-HMS Terrain

2   Past materials